Jeffry Shearer Rense is an American

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host. His show, the ''Jeff Rense Program'', was broadcast via

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and is now released through his personal website. Rense's radio program and website propagate conspiracy theories, including those of 9/11 conspiracists,

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and advocates of the paranormal, the creation of diseases,

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, evidence of advanced

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, emergent energy technologies, and

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. Rense's writings and website have been deemed pro- Nazi and

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by the

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and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Radio host

Rense's first on-air experience came while he was a student at University of California, Santa Barbara in the 1970s."IVCC HOLDS ELECTION, POLL"
''The Daily Nexus'', University of California, Santa Barbara, issue April 13, 1971. In 1994, Rense self-financed a radio show on Santa Barbara's KTMS. The show was originally broadcast as ''Sightings on the Radio'', the title being a direct reference to the television series ''

Sightings Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something previously unrecognized as meaningful. With reference to sciences and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing ...

''. The show was originally distributed by Premiere Radio Networks but was dropped in the late 1990s after it was deemed hate speech and banned in Europe. Talk Radio Network then carried the show through the early 2000s, when all references to ''Sightings'' were dropped and the title ''Jeff Rense Program'' was adopted. Genesis Communications Network took over distribution and carried the show through August 2009, when Rense accused fellow GCN host Alex Jones of threatening to "destroy" him. ''Jeff Rense Program'' is now streamed through Rense's personal website. Guests on the show have included former Congresswoman

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; host of ''

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'' James Edwards; Brad Steiger; British conspiracy theorist David Icke;

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; and David Duke.

Criticism of anti-Semitic content

The

and the Southern Poverty Law Center have stated that Rense disseminates antisemitic and pro-Nazi speech while promoting people with similar ideologies.

Notes

References

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

External links

Jeff Rense Program
– official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Rense, Jeff Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 9/11 conspiracy theorists American conspiracy theorists American talk radio hosts Anti-Zionism in the United States John F. Kennedy conspiracy theorists American critics of Islam Critics of Judaism Radio personalities from St. Louis University of California, Santa Barbara alumni UFO conspiracy theorists American neo-Nazis