Open System for Geniuses - by Chronostalker

One of the most trivial Evans’ errors is his statement that the group O(2) is isomorphic to U(1). In his recent complains (dated August 10, 2006) to the Editors of Physica Scripta Evans writes:

"I still await the elementary politeness of a reply from you concerning the Bruhn papers. In the meantime these are some rebuttal papers and proofs. They rebut Bruhn’s comments using standard Cartan geometry. I am able to rebut eveyrthing he has ever written in all detail, and have already done so. He is not using correct mathematics or standard Cartan geometry. Some of his errors are so trivial as to raise concern about what he is really doing."

Evans includes his rebuttals, one of them concerns the issue of O(3) being isomorphic to U(1). Let us examine this issue in details, not because it is important (it is rather trivial and not essential), but because it throws some light on Evans (miss)understanding of mathematics.

Evans quotes Ryder’s monograph "Quantum Field Theory" as an authority, and he copies from Ryder the erroneous statement that the two groups are isomorphic. Of course Ryder is wrong. And Evans repeats Ryder’s error. First of all Ryder defines, though not very precisely, the group O(n) as the group of orthogonal matrices n x n, that is matrices satisfying R^TR=I. From this it follows that det(R)² = 1, and so det(R) = 1 or det(R) = -1. Rider is not using at all the symbol SO(n), that normally is being used for the connected group of orthogonal matrices of detereminant one. So, when he writes that every element of O(2) is uniquely determined by a rotation angle - he is wrong. The matrix

(1 0)
(0 -1)

is orthogonal, and yet it is not a rotation matrix. It belongs to O(2), but it does not belong to SO(2). The group U(1) is isomorphic to SO(2), but not to O(2). Evidently Evans does not understand these mathematical "subtleties", so instead of fixing Ryder’s error, he proudly repeats it and call his error a "rebuttal". It should be noted that Ryder’s monograph is not a textbook on group theory, and Ryder is not a mathematician. Ryder’s book is on QFT, and it is assumed that the readers will be smart enough to fix the small mathemathical inacurracies by themselves. In fact, it is a good exercise in critical reading!

Evans ends his letter to the Editors of Physica Scripta with:

"Questions must now be asked about the editorship of Physica Scripta itself, and its refereeing procedures. Concern about this has already been voiced in the US Supreme Court, which ruled that academic refereeing procedures are biased."

And he is partly, but only partly right. The trivial errors in Ryder’s book should have been corrected, and they were not. Yet there are different procedures for publishing monographs, and for publishing research papers in scientific journals. While it is rather usual to find errors in voluminuous monographs, it is not permissible to publish trivial errors in scientific journals that follow the peer review procedures.

We may ask: why is Evans not correcting his trivial errors? Why is he so stubbornly repeating them? Some light on this subject can be found in an opinion of one of Myron’s close ex-collaborators (L. B. C.) who wrote:

"Myron […] became increasingly hostile to any criticism of anything that he thinks is real. In effect what he thinks is serious theoretical physics has become more a matter of his own delusions. He became very hostile to anybody who deigns to point out problems with anything he claims, and his reactions are very similar to what is seen with people afflicted with delusional mental states."

There are non-criminal psychopaths, snakes in suits, who harass and annoy scientists, and do not allow for any critics, and they do it in the name of “democracy”, and there are monster psychopaths, who kill innocents by thousands - also in the name of “democracy”. See:

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Psychopathy is an intriguing subject. Here are some examples of psychopaths
among the serial killers and criminals:

Donald Leroy Evans (2+) Don, an army veteran, drug addict and drifter from Galveston, Texas, is another possible serial killer with a hefty ego. A convicted rapist, he was arrested in Louisiana in 1991 where he confessed to the kidnapping and murder of a ten-year-old girl in Gulfport, Mississippi. But that wasn’t all he wanted to confess. Donny kept on confessing and confessing to the tune of more than eighty kills. What he revealed to authorities was a ten-year killing rampage spanning ten states that later he said was a hoax. Evans made made a career out of leading federal authorities on multistate, fruitless searches for seemingly nonexistent victims.

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Gary Evans: (5) On August 14, 1998, suspected serial killer Gary Evans died when he kicked out the window of a police van and jumped — with his hands and feet shackled — into the Hudson River while on his way to a court appearance. Evans, 43, was being transported from Troy by U.S. Marshalls to a federal court appearance in Albany. Evans, a convicted antiques thief, was accused of killing five men, including three accomplices. Police said Evans had confessed to the murders and led them to three of the bodies this summer while he was jailed on unrelated theft charge.

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James Evans: Even more precocious than Caril Ann Fugate was Wendy Gardner, 13, subject of the book Kill Grandma for Me. This, apparently, was the sentiment she conveyed to her 15 year old boyfriend, James Evans, when her grandmother wouldn’t let her stay over at his place on Christmas 1994. She stayed with him anyway, and they plotted the hypothetical crime between bouts of sex. They compared the merits of shooting, stabbing and strangling the elderly woman, they discussed the handling and disposal of the body, and even Wendy’s 11 year old sister was accounted for in the plan: "When we tie her up you can fuck her instead of me ‘cause I’m sick of you doing it to me all the time," Wendy allegedly said.

There’s no doubt that James had a history of aggressive behavior, even an apocryphal reputation as a cat killer, though he impresses the reader mostly as a dopey kid, just trying to keep from getting hurt by lashing out. Wendy, meanwhile, was an above-average student, who recorded advanced sexual and violent urges in her diary. She was the brains of the operation, but he was the hands—the hands that strangled Betty Gardner to her death.

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Tim Evans: Tim Evans was a violent man diagnosed as a psychopath by the prison doctor, who always thought he was guilty, even after he interviewed Christie. Christie was more the hopeless, sensitive, inadequate, than the psychopathic type.

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So, the question is: how deal with psychopaths?

Dr. Robert Hare claims there are 300,000 psychopaths in Canada, but that only a tiny fraction are violent offenders like Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olsen. Who are the rest? Take a look around. […] And it’s really just beginning. Psychopathy may prove to be as important a construct in this century as IQ was in the last (and just as susceptible to abuse), because, thanks to Hare, we now understand that the great majority of psychopaths are not violent criminals and never will be. Hundreds of thousands of psychopaths live and work and prey among us. Your boss, your boyfriend, your mother could be what Hare calls a "subclinical" psychopath, someone who leaves a path of destruction and pain without a single pang of conscience. Even more worrisome is the fact that, at this stage, no one — not even Bob Hare — is quite sure what to do about it. […]

He calls them "subclinical" psychopaths. They’re the charming predators
who, unable to form real emotional bonds, find and use vulnerable women for
sex and money (and inevitably abandon them). They’re the con men like Christophe
Rocancourt, and they’re the stockbrokers and promoters who caused Forbes magazine
to call the Vancouver Stock Exchange (now part of the Canadian Venture Exchange)
the scam capital of the world. (Hare has said that if he couldn’t study psychopaths
in prisons, the Vancouver Stock Exchange would have been his second choice.)
A significant proportion of persistent wife beaters, and people who have unprotected
sex despite carrying the AIDS virus, are psychopaths. Psychopaths can be found
in legislatures, hospitals, and used-car lots. They’re your neighbour, your
boss, and your blind date. Because they have no conscience, they’re natural
predators. If you didn’t have a conscience, you’d be one too. […]

" … psychopaths have three motivations: thrill-seeking, the pathological
desire to win, and the inclination to hurt people. "They’ll jump on any
opportunity that allows them to do those things," he says. "If something
better comes along, they’ll drop you and move on."[…]

"Even in his particular area, Hare is unfailingly circumspect. Asked
if he thinks there will ever be a cure for psychopathy — a drug, an operation
— Hare steps back and examines the question. "The psychopath will say
‘A cure for what?’ I don’t feel comfortable calling it a disease. Much of
their behaviour, even the neurobiological patterns we observe, could be because
they’re using different strategies to get around the world. These strategies
don’t have to involve faulty wiring, just different wiring.""[…]

"After thirty-five years of work, Bob Hare has brought us to the stage
where we know what psychopathy is, how much damage psychopaths do, and even
how to identify them. But we don’t know how to treat them or protect the population
from them. The real work is just beginning. Solving the puzzle of the psychopath
is an invigorating prospect — if you’re a scientist. Perhaps the rest of
us can be forgiven for our impatience to see the whole thing come to an end."

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"The psychopath is a dangerously clever "alien reaction machine"
that has practiced giving all the correct answers. However, much of that verbal
practice will have taken place in institutions or in dysfunctional families
in lower-class neighborhoods. When those same answers are given in upscale
surroundings, they come out as contrived falsehoods.

Another clue is that the alien machine will not take responsibility, but
will tend to "blame others" for misfortunes with drugs, sexual partners,
bosses, co- workers, authorities, or whatever. Also, the full-blown psychopath
is NEVER altruistic or ethical (except by accident), but may be shrewd enough
to pretend altruism as sham behavior (to attract votes). By accepting a psychopath’s
statements at face value, without cross- checking public records or other
sources, a careless or inattentive interviewer can fail to pick up on the
frequent lies. For example, to trip up corrupt politicians or self-described
"experts", sometimes it is only necessary to compare two different
answers to the same or similar questions repeated on two or more different
occasions, without involving external sources at all. Any pattern of lies
will stand out as outside the norm of ethical conduct. By itself, this discrepancy
is insufficient to classify the individual as antisocial, but it is an indication
that other tests should be made."

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There are several kind of psychopaths and terrorists. While dealing with the little ones that use just the “Diplomatic Pressure”, we must not lose from our sight the real monsters, who use “the most lethal and sophisticated weapons.”

The Daily Star, Lebabnon’s daily, has published the following open letter by SALIM EL HOSS, former Prime Minister of Lebanon.

TO THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT

BY: SALIM EL HOSS, former Prime Minister of Lebanon.

SOURCE: Published 8-3-06 by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon).
URL: Republished 8-6-06 by Al Jazeerah at http://tinyurl.com/qw92o

Dear Mr. Bush,

We heard you express your regrets regarding the casualties inflicted by “Israel’s” ravaging war against my country, Lebanon.

I hope you have been furnished with a true profile of the atrocities being perpetrated in my country. You pose as being at war with terrorism. Let me honestly tell you: Charity starts at home.

“ISRAEL” IS WANTONLY INDULGING IN THE MOST HORRENDOUS FORMS OF TERRORISM IN LEBANON: INDISCRIMINATELY KILLING INNOCENT CIVILIANS AT RANDOM; NOT SPARING CHILDREN, ELDERLY OR HANDICAPPED PEOPLE; DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS OVER THEIR
RESIDENTS’ HEADS; AND DESTROYING ALL INFRASTRUCTURE, ROADS, BRIDGES, WATER AND POWER ARTERIES, HARBORS, AIR STRIPS AND STORAGE FACILITIES.

Nothing moving on the highways is spared, not even ambulances, trucks, trailers, cars or motorcycles, all in violation of the Geneva Conventions and universal human rights.

The displaced population has reached more than one-fourth of the total population of my country - all suffering the harshest and most miserable of conditions.

THE VICTIMS INCLUDE THOUSANDS OF KILLED AND MAIMED.

IF THIS IS NOT TERRORISM, WHAT IS?

“Israel’s” savage assault has been labeled retribution for Hizbullah’s abduction of two Israeli soldiers. This smacks of collective punishment, which constitutes a brazen violation of the Geneva Conventions and universal human rights. Furthermore, their alibi is far from plausible. The two Israeli soldiers were abducted for the express purpose of negotiating a swap of hostages with “Israel”. In fact, “Israel” had acceded more than once to such swaps in the past. Why would a swap of prisoners be acceptable at one time and taboo - indeed, a casus belli - at another?

This created a conviction among the Lebanese that the sweeping assault against them was premeditated, and the abduction was only a tenuous excuse.

“ISRAEL” IS INDULGING IN TERRORISM AT ITS WORST, AT ITS UGLIEST, USING THE MOST LETHAL AND SOPHISTICATED WEAPONS YOU HAVE SUPPLIED THEM.

We, the Lebanese people, are justified in seeing in “Israel” a most atrocious terrorist power, and seeing in you a direct partner. Mr. President: You are indeed a terrorist, practicing the worst variant of terrorism as you condone the annihilation of my country, precluding a cease-fire to be announced, supporting the aggression against my people politically and diplomatically, and bolstering “Israel’s” destructive arsenal with the most lethal weaponry.

MR. PRESIDENT: YOU ARE NOT FOOLING ANYBODY WITH YOUR ALLEGED WAR AGAINST TERRORISM. IN OUR PERSPECTIVE, YOU AND “ISRAEL” ARE THE MOST UNSCRUPULOUS TERRORISTS ON EARTH. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FIGHT TERRORISM, WE SUGGEST THAT YOU START WITH YOUR ADMINISTRATION AND YOUR HIDEOUS ALLY, “ISRAEL”.

You repeatedly claim that “Israel” is acting in “self-defense.” How preposterous! “Self-defense” by militarily invading and massively bombarding another people’s long-occupied territory is tantamount to one thing: blatant aggression.

You call Hizbullah a “terrorist organization.” We call it a legitimate resistance movement. There would have been no military wing of Hizbullah if there had been no Lebanese territory under Israeli occupation, if there had been no Lebanese hostages languishing in Israeli jails, and if Lebanon had not been exposed to “Israel’s” almost daily hostile intrusions into our airspace and territorial waters, and its sporadic incursions into Lebanese land and
bombardment of Lebanese civilian targets.

You cannot eliminate a party by demolishing a whole country. This would have been achieved peacefully by “Israel” withdrawing from the land it illegally occupies, releasing Lebanese prisoners, and desisting from further acts of aggression against Lebanon.

“ISRAEL” IS THE MOST HORRENDOUS TERRORIST POWER.

AND YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, ARE UNMISTAKABLY A DIRECT PARTNER, AND HENCE A STRAIGHT TERRORIST.

-Salim El Hoss, former Prime Minister of Lebanon,
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indymedia.co.uk has published the following intro to this letter:

Intro by Henk Ruyssenaars - foreign correspondent

FPF - August 7, 2006 - This open letter about the US/Israeli war machine’s genocide in Lebanon was written a week ago: imagine how many more fellow human beings have been killed by those war criminals since then: in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon itself…

The creatures which are responsible* for the massacres - and that includes all their propagandists, the ‘media brainwashers’ without whom this never would have been possible - are not human and must be neutralized as soon as laws are valid again. Everywhere.

Any other country would have been sacked and ‘bombed back to the Stone Age’ as the US always does, but Israel does not care about UN resolutions. The US/Israeli war machine ignores all other countries in the UN. A list of UN Resolutions against “Israel” - Url.: http://www.uscrusade.com/forum/config.pl/noframes/read/1372

What they do is serial killing on a global scale, which can never be accepted by any human being with decency.

The PNAC and cooperating ‘crazies’ in Washington are only the mortal top of the wave in a their terror tsunami, threatening to drown the world in blood, and the immense shame and guilt also befalls the cowardly collaborating ‘Coalition of the Killing’ and other brain dead mercenaries - of whatever nationality - doing the dirty work for the warmongers in many countries.

Don’t they understand why the resistance hangs their Gestapo and will hang them too? Url.: http://tinyurl.com/q83ny

One really wonders how those criminal characters think they ever can survive the growing hatred of the global population, the human beings they - for their own needs and goals - have maltreated and killed on this earth for such a long time. We others are 6.5 Billion and everywhere. Since this group does not respect conventions, laws of war or other human beings, they can not expect respect for human rights in return, and can not expect anything else but this - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jb56k

THE WAR CRIMINALS WILL SOON KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS…

Once upon a time Myron W. E. Evans wrote about himself this way:

“I am a native of Wales and the Gower Constituency and have been nominated seven times for a Wolf Prize in physics, (commensurate in standing with a Nobel Prize). I appear in several reference vehicles such as the Marquis Who’s Who in America, the World, and in Science and Engineering, having produced over six hundred and fifty monographs and scientific papers. A copy of my summary CV is attached (listing about one hundred recognitions, honours and awards, Fellowships in open competition, honorary positions, positions held, and so on) together with an eloquent nomination for a Wolf Prize from the distinguished US Editor and scientist, Alwyn van der Merwe, professor of physics in the University of Denver”

We think that everyone in the Wales squad should know that M.W. Evans deserves also the Fields Medal in mathematics. We nominate him for inventing a new method of proving mathematical theorems. We will demonstrate the MWE Method using a simple, easily understandable example.

Suppose we have to prove that a 1 is the same as “Infinity”. Applying the old fashioned methods that have been used by Cartan and Poincare will not succeed in this case. A more “powerful method is needed”. First we realize 1 as the length of the unit vector
v=xi+yj+zk
where x^2+y^2+z^2=1. Then we identify this vector with a straight line, and the length of the straight line is known to be Infinite. Therefore 1=Infinity. But this is not yet the end of the proof.

The MWE method includes an independent verification and tempering of the proof (much like a sword needs to be tempered in order to make it more resiliant). It is this additional “tempering” of the proofs that deserves the Fields Medal.

Evans does it by using, what he calls a “Diplomatic Pressure”. Regarding those who would try to find “errors” in the proof he suggests:

“I suggest a number of complaints every week, based on evidence, to professional bodies, university administration, police and State Governors, and if necessary, Ambassadors.”

Fields Medal for MWE. We vote for him.

P.S. One would think that there may a “little problem” with this nomination, because “The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians not over forty years of age”. But by a proper use of the “Diplomatic Pressure” and “Homeland Security Squads” this little obstacle can be certainly overcome!

How does a British Civil List Scientist reacts to a scientific critic? My usually well informed friends in Wales tell me that he is sending homeland security after those who dare to find elementary errors in his papers.

MWE: […] “I will contact the FBI in New York City to explain that this is another instance of a campaign of systematic harassment against the British Civil List Scientist by felons. This may stir them into some action. The Governors of New York and Pennsylvania might take notice and order the police into action against both …”

It is really a shame for the British science. Is there a method in this madness? Perhaps there is.

I my previous post I have mentioned psychopathy. This is even more interesting than Evans’ idea of what science is about:

“Cheating skills seem to have an adaptive value in our society. The fact is: psychopaths often end up on the top of the heap.”

http://www.autismwebsite.com/crimetimes/04b/w04bp2.htm

Also:

“Gary Evans grew up in Troy, New York, where he was physically and emotionally abused by both parents until they divorced in 1968. His mother attempted suicide on numerous occasions. Likely at his mother’s behest, Evans began stealing at a young age. He also reportedly abused and killed neighborhood pets, which is widely considered an early sign of antisocial personality disorder.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_C._Evans

Psychopathy is another interesting subject:

“Psychopaths are notorious for not answering the questions asked them. They will answer something else, or in such a way that the direct question is never addressed. They also phrase things so that some parts of their narratives are difficult to understand. This is not careless speech, of which everyone is guilty at times, but an ongoing indication of the underlying condition in which the organization of mental activity suggests something is wrong. It’s not what they say, but how they say it that gives insight into their true nature.

But this raises, again, the question: if their speech is so odd, how come smart people get taken in by them? Why do we fail to pick up the inconsistencies?

Part of the answer is that the oddities are subtle so that our general listening mode will not normally pick them up. But my own experience is that some of the “skipped” or oddly arranged words, or misused words are automatically reinterpreted by OUR brains in the same way we automatically “fill in the blank” space on a neon sign when one of the letters has gone out. We canbe driving down the road at night, and ahead we see M_tel, and we mentally put the “o” in place and read “Motel.” Something like this happens between the psychopath and the victim. We fill in the “missing humanness” by filling in the blanks with our own assumptions, based on what WE think and feel and mean. And, in this way, because there are these “blank” spots, we fill them in with what is
inside us, and thus we are easily convinced that the psychopath is a great guy - because he is just like us! We have been conditioned to operate on trust, and we always try to give the “benefit of the doubt.” So, there are blanks, we “give the benefit of the doubt,” and we are thereby hoisted on our own petard.

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a “feeding opportunity,” a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. [Hare]

http://www.hare.org/

At the present moment in history, the appeal of the psychopath has never been greater. Movies about psychopaths are all the rage. Hare asks “Why? What accounts for the terrific power that the personality without conscience has over our collective imagination?

One theorist proposes that people who admire, believe, or identify with psychopaths, are partly psychopathic themselves. By interacting with a psychopath, even peripherally, they are able to voyeuristically enjoy an
inner state not dominated by the constraints of morality. Such people are enabled to enjoy aggressive and sexual pleasures at no cost.

For normal people, such movies may serve to remind them of the danger and destructiveness of the psychopath. They will shiver with the sense of something cold and dark having breathed on their neck. For others, people
with poorly developed inner selves, such movies and glorification of psychopathic behavior only serves as a role model for serious acts of violence and predation against others.

The only difference that family background seems to make is how the psychopath expresses himself. A psychopath who grows up in a stable family and has access to positive social and educational resources might become a white-collar criminal, or perhaps a somewhat shady entrepreneur, politician, lawyer, judge, or other professional. Another individual with the same traits, and a deprived background might become a common con-artist, a drifter, mercenary, or violent criminal.

The point is, social factors and parenting practices only shape the expression of the disorder, but have no effect on the individual’s inability to feel empathy or to develop a conscience.

Robert Hare once submitted a paper to a scientific journal. The paper included EEGs of several groups of adult men performing a language task. The editor of the journal returned the paper saying “Those EEG’s couldn’t have come from real people.”

But they did. They were the EEG’s of psychopaths.

Some people have compared psychopathy to schizophrenia. However, there is a crucial distinction as we will see:

Schizophrenia and psychopathy are both characterized by impulsive, poorly planned behavior. This behavior may originate from a weak or poorly coordinated response inhibition system. We tested the hypothesis that
schizophrenia and psychopathy are associated with abnormal neural processing during the suppression of inappropriate responses.

The participants were schizophrenic patients, nonpsychotic psychopaths, and nonpsychotic, nonpsychopathic control subjects (defined by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised), all incarcerated in a maximum security psychiatric facility. We recorded behavioral responses and event-related potentials (ERPs) during a
Go/No Go task.

Results: Schizophrenic patients made more errors of commission than did the nonpsychopathic offenders. As expected, the nonpsychopathic nonpsychotic participants showed greater frontal ERP negativity (N275) to the No Go stimuli than to the Go stimuli. This effect was small in the schizophrenic patients and absent in the psychopaths. For the nonpsychopaths, the P375 ERP component was larger on Go than on No Go trials, a difference that was absent in schizophrenicpatients and in the opposite direction in psychopaths.

Conclusions: These findings support the hypothesis that the neural processes involved in response inhibition are abnormal in both schizophrenia and psychopathy; however, the nature of these processes appears to be different in the two disorders.

“More and more data are leading to the conclusion that psychopathy has a biological basis, and has many features of a disease,” says Sabine Herpertz, a psychiatrist at the RWTH-Aachen University in Germany.

The brain imaging techniques of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provide the opportunity to investigate psychopathy further. They might allow researchers to discover whether
psychopaths’ physiological and emotional deficits can be pinned down to specific differences in the anatomy or activation of the brain.

Among researchers who are starting to explore this area, there are two main theories of psychopathy. One, championed by Adrian Raine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and supported by the work of Antonio Damasio of the University of Iowa, gives a starring role to a brain region called the orbitofrontal cortex (see diagram, below). This is part of an area of the brain, known as the prefrontal cortex, involved in conscious decision-making.

The other theory, promoted by James Blair of University College London, holds that the fundamental dysfunction lies within the amygdala, a small almond-shaped structure that plays a critical role in processing emotion and mediating fear. Recently, using PET scanning, Blair has shown that activation of
the amygdala in normal volunteers is involved in responding to the sadness and anger of others, and he hypothesizes that amygdala dysfunction could explain the lack of fear and empathy in psychopaths.

The two theories may not be mutually exclusive, Blair points out, as the orbitofrontal cortex, which does the ‘thinking’, and the amygdala, which does the ‘feeling’, are highly interconnected.

Following widespread concern that the criminal justice and mental health systems are failing to deal effectively with dangerous psychopaths, there is a movement in several countries to instigate fundamental legal reform. The most controversial suggestion is to make it possible for individual who have severe personality disorders to be detained in secure mental institutions even if they have been accused of no crime. Although these particular provisions have alarmed civil liberties campaigners, the raft of measures also includes a major initiative within the prison service to improve the handling of those with APD–including psychopaths.

According to one individual who suffered at the hands of a psychopath:

“The World has only one problem, Psychopaths. There are two basic types of Psychopaths, Social and Anti-Social. The essential feature of Psychopaths is a Pervasive, Obssesive- Compulsive desire to force their delusions on others. Psychopaths completely disregard and violate the Rights of others, particularly the Freedom of Association which includes the right not to associate and the Right to Love.”

And we have come full circle. Over and over again we come up against that little problem: religion and belief systems that have to be defended against objective evidence or the beliefs of others. We have to ask ourselves “where did these belief systems come from that so evidentially are catastrophic?” And then, we have to think about the fact that now, in the present day, when many of these systems are breaking down and being replaced by others that similarly divert our attention away from what IS, it becomes necessary to “enforce” a certain mode of thinking. And that is what Psychopaths do best.

Psychopaths dominate and set the standard for behavior in our society. We live in a world based on a psychopathic, energy stealing food chain, because that’s just the way things are. Most people are so damaged they no longer have the capacity to even imagine a different system based on a symbiotic network.

They are not only damaged by others, but also by the thousand little evils they have done to others to survive. For them to see the system for what it is, would require them to see the part they have played in perpetuating it. That is a lot to ask of a fragile ego. Also, those who are not psychopaths, still want to make human connections but are afraid to, for fear of being taken advantage of and stolen from energeticaly speaking.

With the brief historical review we have examined, we are acutely aware that this is NOT a phenomenon confined to our present “time.” It is a trans-millennial evolutionary strategy that, step by step, has brought us to our present position. What emerges in the present day is just Machiavellian diversion that focuses the attention of those who are easily deceived. This is reinforced by the “clappers” in the audience, and there seems to be an entire army of psychopaths among us whose job it is act as vectors of attention and direction. We hope that the readers of these pages will give themselves permission to imagine, research and implement a different way of being. And to stand up for themselves while doing it.

Surprise, surprise! Boy, they work fast. Patsy Smullin of KOBI TV Channels 5, 30 & 36 is being pressed by Rense’s lawyers to negate what she said before. I hope she is not in the information camp, she does not want to add to distorsion and to chaos that created on this planet not for our good! Here is the next piece “A War of Nerves” from Lisa Giuliani of WingTV

On May 31, 2006 at 4:30 pm I received an unexpected phone call from Patsy Smullin, owner of KOBI-TV Channel 5 in Medford, Oregon. If you read my latest article entitled, Jeff Rense: A Reinvention of What?, then you know that Patsy Smullin is Jeff Rense’s former employer. This was our third conversation in a weeks’ time, and regrettably it wasn’t as cordial as our previous exchanges.

Ms. Smullin began the conversation by asking, “Have you heard from the Eugene attorney yet?” She sounded extremely nervous and agitated and her voice was shaking.

I responded with, “An attorney; for what? No, I haven’t heard from anybody. What is this about?”

Smullin was having great difficulty expressing herself, and I was trying to put together the gist of what she was attempting (but unable) to say.

Smullin: You called me asking for Jeff Rense’s dates of employment and I had to do a lot of work to get that information for you. I had to go into another building to get that information for you.”

Me: “Yes, and I thank you. But what are you talking about now? What attorney? I don’t understand what you mean.”

Smullin: “You need to remove those two sentences from your article.”

Me: “Which sentences?”

Smullin: “The ones about Jeff Rense being a compulsive liar, and about him not being known for his honesty. You need to remove those.”

Me: “Why should I remove them? I didn’t misquote you at all. I wrote down exactly what you said. I have it in my notes. You knew I was writing an article.”

Smullin: (in a low voice): “That’s not the way I remember it.” (A pause, then excitedly) “You don’t seem to understand. I’m trying to help you.”

Me: “No, I don’t understand, because you haven’t told me what you’re talking about. That’s not the way you remember it? We just spoke YESTERDAY. What are you saying? Are you now suddenly denying that you made those comments? Are you calling me a liar? I wrote exactly what you told me.” No response to my questions. (Another pause.)

Smullin: “I’m saying you need to be very careful. I can’t say anymore.”

Me: “I need to be careful? Careful of what? Are you saying somebody’s going to sue me? If so; for what … for quoting you?”

Smullin: “No, no. I really can’t say anymore. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have called, I’m sorry. I can’t say anymore.” Click.

Well, well, well; isn’t this interesting? Patsy Smullin seemed frightened – not at all the way she had sounded during our first two conversations. Previously, she’d sounded upbeat, friendly and more at ease. We’d had two very pleasant phone conversations; one on Friday, May 26, 2006 and the second on Tuesday, May 30, 2006. Ms. Smullin was indeed very helpful in providing the requested dates of employment as I’d requested. She was also quick to respond to my questions, and related recollections of Jeff Rense, her former employee.

At this point, I’d like to be very clear: Patsy Smullin knew perfectly well why I had contacted her. I fully identified myself right from the start, both with her secretary/assistant and to her personally. It is not my tendency to beat around the bush with people, so I told her that I’m an independent freelance writer and the purpose for my call was fact checking. In addition, I laid it out in no uncertain terms (within the first two minutes of our initial contact on May 26, 2006) that I was working on an article about Jeff Rense, and that this fact-checking was necessary in order to verify some information contained in online bios referencing his previous broadcast journalism career.

Let’s get this straight: Nobody forced Ms. Smullin to return my phone messages, to respond to my inquiries, or to answer any single question posed to her. Nobody tricked her, lied to her, or twisted her arm to do any of the above, and no one made her call on May 30th to provide me with the dates of Jeff Rense’s previous term of employment at KOBI-TV. She did these things of her own free will. To be honest, I didn’t expect her to call me back at all. I suspect that others in her position simply would not.

Moreover, I quoted Smullin’s responses precisely, as in verbatim-word-for-word regarding every single statement attributed to her in my article. Any and all of those comments she did make, voluntarily, and without embellishment, exaggeration or assistance from me.

Apparently, 24 hours after my article hit the Internet, “Somebody” had a real problem with the fact that I talked to Patsy Smullin. It is my distinct impression that “Somebody” wasn’t expecting this particular connection to happen. Surprise, surprise, Jeff. “Somebody” was undoubtedly blindsided by this piece – and I’m telling you right now, it wasn’t Patsy Smullin. My impression is that Smullin is a very nice lady, and someone is trying to intimidate her based upon this peculiar phone call I’ve just described “for the record”.

Thus far, I have not been contacted by the aforementioned “Eugene attorney,” but if this does happen, I’ll certainly apprise everyone of the situation. I’m a little amused at how little time it took for “Somebody” to completely unravel and start throwing their weight around behind the scenes over this latest article I’ve written. I’ll give you three guesses as to who is driving the intimidation machine. Nah, this one’s a no-brainer. Make that one guess. Question: Is this how Jeff Rense intends to respond to my article? By putting the “thumb” on people? Fine, Jeff. If that’s how you want to play, then so be it.

Just so everybody; and particularly “Somebody” knows: I stand behind every single word written in my article – completely, and 110%. Furthermore, I do not intend to remove anything, including and particularly, the two sentences in which I quoted Patsy Smullin during our conversations. The two sentences that allegedly needed removal addressed the “honesty” of Jeff Rense and were the personal opinion of someone who actually knew him, as related to me over the course of two separate phone discussions. Patsy Smullin’s statements were quoted by me accurately, verbatim, and in their proper context; and it should be noted that she would be considered a very credible source of information.

Let it be known that I have never once in my life removed or retracted truthful information from any of my articles, and I am not going to be intimidated into such a cowardly act now by anybody, including a convoy of legal guns from Eugene, Oregon. I stand by EVERY SINGLE WORD in that piece. Patsy Smullin should be commended for telling the truth. Maybe the monkey should get off her back. She didn’t write the article. I did.

Message to Jeff Rense: You know exactly where I am and how to contact me. So, if you’ve got something to say to me, then be a man and do it directly, if you have the cajones. Unlike you, I don’t cower in shadows, wear wigs to disguise my identity, or put the squeeze on people - whether overtly or behind the scenes. Furthermore, it is not in my nature to shrink from cowards, hypocrites, liars, bullies, or from truth. I confront each of these squarely head-on, and will most certainly not shrink from the likes of you or any of your “legal thugs”. One would hope you’re adult enough to do the same.

I do not – and never will - fear the truth. Interestingly enough, it appears that you do. If you want to come after someone, well, here I am.

It’s your move.

Lisa Guliani
June 1, 2006

I have been travelling all around the world. There was neither time nor opportunity to post to my blog. I am back to my Chronostalking. There are scientific issues where distorsion abodes, and there less scientific, yet reaching much wider public - these are even more dangerous than the scientific ones. Jeff Rense site is one of such sites. I was always suspecting something terribly wrong about the disinformation propagating from there - reaching wide audinces. Including those audiences that are looking for undistorted truth abou science and its peryphery.

Today I’ve found a confirmation of what I have been suspecting - an article on WingTV site
Jeff Rense: A Reinvention of What?
by Lisa Guliani. It’s worth to be quoted in extenso:

Patsy Smullin has run KOBI-TV for the last 30 years, and her father founded it. If anybody would have known Jeff Rense and the supposed 5,000 newscasts he claims to have made, it would be Patsy.

As it happens, Patsy Smullin does remember Jeff Rense, and in two different telephone conversations I had with her over the past few days, she confirmed that he did have a position at her television station for a brief time as a reporter and news anchor. Smullin stressed that Jeff Rense, or “a guy calling himself Jeff Rense” (her words), was employed at KOBI (an NBC affiliate) from June 1983 to May 1984, and she is not aware of him working at any other station in the state of Oregon either prior to his employment at KOBI-TV or afterward. [I would think if he’d worked at other stations previous to his KOBI position, these would be listed on his job application or resume when given to KOBI-TV.]

Patsy had more to say. She revealed that in her experience as Jeff Rense’s employer (and this is a direct quote), “He was not known for his honesty.” Think about it. Patsy Smullin was Rense’s employer some twenty-odd years ago. After all this tiime, the characteristic that has remained clearly in her memory is that “he was not known for his honesty”. What does that say to you? According to Ms. Smullin, at that time Jeff was also involved in several court battles with other people. One wonders if it has anything to do with him not being known for his honesty?

When asked if she could elaborate on the comment she’d made regarding Rense not being known for his honesty, her response was: “Sure. He was a compulsive liar.” Also, when questioned as to the claim that Jeff anchored and produced “5000 newscasts,” Patsy Smullin laughed heartily and stated, “This is absolutely false. He never did that here.” Okay, if not at KOBI-TV, then where? Perhaps Jeff Rense will reveal this to us all at some point so we can check it out.

But on his own website, Jeff Rense claims to have been an award winning news director and TV news anchor for 10-12 years (accounts vary). If not at KOBI, then where?

An American Treasure

“…an award-winning television News Director and News Anchor for over ten years, Jeff continually pushed for higher standards of journalism and responsible, intelligent reporting and inquiry. Regrettably, those goals were often at odds with the irrevocable TV news obsession for tabloid exploitation of the trivial, the tragic and the sensational. The situation became so dubious and distasteful that one day he walked away from his highly-successful news anchor/news director career (as high as a 53 Share of the audience - Nielsen) and moved to radio, recognizing it as the last viable approach to bringing reality to the American public…and now with the internet, to the world.”

Interesting that Rense declares himself to have worked as a news director and TV news anchor. An online search to verify this claim will return only Jeff’s words – repeated endlessly ad nauseum - as to the truthfulness of this assertion. There is literally no data to substantiate this claim anywhere on the Internet. The claim exists only on the Rense website and a few other websites that have copied and pasted the Rense claims onto their own pages.

Here’s another variation on the same theme: Jeff Rense Hosts Sightings

“During 12 years as an award-winning broadcast journalist, Jeff anchored and produced more than 5,000 television newscasts. This devoted single dad is also author of the book AIDS Exposed and passionately investigates ways to prevent diseases and extend life. His brother is Rip Rense, longtime reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Jeff first did radio while an education major at the University of California Santa Barbara, and in 1994 he returned to this first love with the talk radio show “End of the Line.” In 1997, by agreement with Henry (”the Fonz”) Winkler and Paramount Pictures, this show transformed into the ratings star “Sightings.”

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Based on the following article he was a former news anchor at KOBI-TV. However, if one searches KOBI, there is no information on the former popular TV news anchor/news director Jeff Rense to be found.

The Truth Is Up There

“Presiding over this conspiratorial miasma is talk-radio host Jeff Rense, whose weeknight show, Sightings, is broadcast from a studio somewhere in Southern Oregon. (Citing threats to his life, Rense asked WW not to print his exact location.) Five nights a week, millions of Americans (including an estimated 21,000 Portlanders) in 120 cities tune in to Rense to catch up on the latest news on alien abduction, Bigfoot, paranormal phenomena–and chemtrails. A former news anchor at KOBI-TV in Medford, Rense began to hear reports of chemtrails in 1999.”

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The above page also says:

“…By the late 1980s, Rense had worked for a handful of network affiliates in the West. He said his ratings were high, and he got ‘lucrative offers’ from several Oregon stations. But he had also become disillusioned with TV news and decided to quit the business….” “…After walking away from his TV career path, Rense returned to Santa Barbara and opened three pet stores…”

“…By the early 1990s, he had sold his All About Pets outlets and in 1994 approached KTMS with his idea for a talk-radio show, or at least his version of one…”

A Professional Broadcast Journalist

“As an award-winning broadcast journalist, Mr. Rense has anchored and produced well over 5,000 live 30-and 60-minute television newscasts… He began his End of the Line radio show which is now in its fourth highly successful year. Recently, the End of the Line was acquired by the Premiere Radio Networks, one of the top two radio syndicators in the U.S., and renamed Sightings On The Radio through an agreement with Paramount.”

“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. Appearing on scores of radio and TV talk shows as an author, Mr. Rense has also been invited to lecture at such institutions as the University of California and USC. He has also written numerous articles, papers, and reports on a wide range of subjects and acts as a consultant on many different issues.”

Rense’s radio show “End of the Line” was renamed “Sightings on the Radio” with Paramount’s backing.

An extensive online search for articles, journalistic reports and papers from Rense’s purported pre-Rense.com prior journalism career yields nothing.

How can this possibly be if he has written ‘numerous articles, papers and reports’? His book, AIDS Exposed, does not appear to be available anymore, with the exception of potential availability of a random used copy, if you’re lucky.

A search on the publisher of this book, Bioalert Press, coughs up nothing as far as any listing for a company website. The top link on Google search for Bioalert Press says: Bookstore– Balaam’s Ass Suggests you Read These Good Books– Health AIDS Exposed– Jeffrey Rense– BioAlert Press– Order from Jeffrey Rense, Box 764, Goleta, CA 93116. www.balaams-ass.com/bookstor/health.htm -

The above Google link would not come up for me in multiple attempts on different days. Regarding the Balaam’s Ass link, one has to order the book directly from Jeff Rense. Is Bioalert Press really just Rense? Has anyone out there ever heard of BioAlert Press?

I find it very ironic that Rense claims to have become so disillusioned with the nature of the mainstream news broadcast business and its inclination to report tabloid style and sensationalistic material, when all anyone has to do is peruse the Rense.com website for 10 minutes to realize that this well-funded site – funded by the same mainstream businesses that Rense claims to detest – is full of nothing but a never-ending series of sensationalistic, tabloid-type, speculative, unsubstantiated or fabricated “news” articles. I have to ask: Is it only wrong, disillusioning and distasteful when “other” people do it, Jeff? Or are you doing it for them?

Furthermore, online searches for any evidence of Jeff Rense’s longstanding claims regarding his extremely elusive broadcast journalism career path result in even more dead ends. There is an article on the Rense website entitled “The Most Dangerous Man in Talk Radio”, authored by an alleged LA writer named Kennedy Grey.

In this article, Kennedy Grey tells us, “When Jeff Rense walked away from a #1 rated Oregon TV news anchor position, people suspected job burnout. But Rense wasn’t burned out on his job - his dissatisfaction was with the entire news media mainstream itself. Grey also states that Jeff spent “Twelve years as on on-air news anchor and News Director “up and down the west coast”. Grey further says, “Rense set out to re-invent himself into a liberator of truth from the confines of a corrupt and bloated news broadcast industry.” He directly quotes Jeff Rense, who states that “Radio is theatre of the mind - a classroom of the mind.”

Very interesting comments, aren’t they? The news anchor/news director statement is impossible to verify via the Internet, and thus far Jeff Rense is not forthcoming with information in spite of email sent to him containing a link to our website inquiry dated Friday, May 26, 2006 entitled Who is “Jeff Rense”?.

Does anyone have a copy of any of these 5,000 Jeff Rense newscasts? We’d sure like to see one. Thus far, we have not been able to locate anyone other than one person who remembers seeing Jeff Rense anchoring a TV newscast.

Only one TV news station’s call letters has been identified thus far. KOBI-TV 5 out of Medford, Oregon, which is an NBC affiliate. Pretty slim pickings. Nevertheless, I made a few phone calls to Medford, Oregon. One would think that as popular as Jeff Rense supposedly was, surely someone would remember him from the 1980s – particularly if he had produced and anchored 5000 newscasts up and down the West Coast. I contacted the Mail Tribune and spoke with an employee in the newsroom there. She had never heard of Oregon’s (former) #1 top rated news anchor, Jeff Rense. I’m awaiting a call back from Bob Hunter, editor of the Mail Tribune newspaper, to see if he has any recollections on this matter.

“5000 newscasts” is a lot of face-time, wouldn’t you agree?

Three calls to Rense’s former place of employment, KOBI-TV, speaking to four people who worked there didn’t help Rense very much. The first three individuals I spoke to had never heard of Jeff Rense and have no idea who he is. The fourth person was the owner of KOBI-TV, Patsy Smullin.

Jeff claims to have left KOBI due to his disillusionment with the mainstream news business and the tendency of TV news to sensationalize and dip into tabloid reporting, as stated above. I read Jeff’s published claims about this to Patsy Smullin. She responded, “That’s not the reason he gave to us at all. He said he was leaving to join his wife in their pet store.” (I am currently checking out the pet store information.)

Overall, Patsy Smullin did not give the impression that Jeff Rense had been a good employee while at KOBI-TV. In fact, her remarks lead one to believe that he was dishonest and untrustworthy. It was all I could do to restrain myself from asking if he conducted newscasts while wearing a wig.

The question we are entitled to ask is: why would Jeff Rense make so many claims about himself, and why would he twist the truth and make public assertions that are simply not true? Isn’t the “reinvented Jeff Rense” supposed to be all about truth and realism as opposed to sensationalistic, tabloid-style garbage? If one looks through his massive website, is it conceivable that a person might have some difficulty trying to discern the difference between Rense shinola and honest-to-god truth? Where does one end and the other begin? Furthermore, is Jeff Rense the person we really want to ask? Maybe that’s a little like asking the Bush Gang to investigate 911? (Oh, right! That’s already been done. Vanity Fair called it a “whitewash.”)

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“Jeff Rense” is a familiar name to countless political/conspiracy talk radio listeners and web surfers. In these circles, virtually everyone has heard of Rense.com. What very few people realize, or have even stopped to think about, is that very little is known about Jeff Rense himself. The available online biographical information is vague and deals in generalities, and has been copied and pasted from one web page to another over the years. The Rense legend has been dished out for public consumption in small, measured doses over time in word-bytes, with hardly anyone daring to openly question its veracity. Rense fans embrace, and often even vehemently defend the legend; those who don’t end up being ridiculed and attacked. That’s a curious feature of Rense’s position as a “Don of Conspiracy Theory.”

Jeff Rense is an interesting guy, wouldn’t you say? He’s almost a “legend,” and is even listed on a government site as the number one purveyor of “misinformation.” That’s quite an accomplishment in a world where “conspiracy theories” are mostly ignored and/or ridiculed. You could even say that it’s very good PR to get on such a list.

My curiosity about Jeff Rense began to grow when I realized that he has maintained a large Internet presence for over a decade, and despite this, there is virtually no information on him other than that which one finds on his website. How has Jeff Rense managed to keep information about himself off the world wide web all these years? That’s an interesting question.

We live in a time that discourages curiosity about the ‘wrong” topics – that’s a hallmark of the Fascist Bushistas - and it seems that questioning Rense is definitely “off limits”. We have to wonder why that is? Asking questions about the ‘wrong” people is treated almost as sacrilege. We love to hold our heroes and gurus high, don’t we? But we have learned the hard way that questions are only discouraged by those who have something to hide.

What could such a nice guy, such a great “patriot” as Jeff Rense possibly have to hide?

After spending some time combing through his claims and trying to find verification, I began to realize that “Jeff Rense” is little more than a reinvention. He has made some very interesting claims over the years, particularly with respect to his former stints in broadcasting and journalism; claims that served as building blocks in the creation of a legend, a legend constructed from the twisting of truth.

Well, let’s look at “Jeff Rense” shall we?

Claim #1: On the Rense.com homepage, we see the following:

“7-time Peabody Award Nominee”

Rense Peabody Talkers claim

Peabody Awards

Truth: The Rense.com website claims 7 Peabody Award nominations. The Peabody Awards do not have nominees. Anyone can fill out an entry, and then later the winners are announced. The following is an email from the Peabody Awards Foundation:

“The Peabody Awards program receives between 1,000 and 1,200 entries each year. We have a 15 member judging panel that meets several times during the judging season, as well as listening to/watching entries alone in their homes. They discuss all entries as a group, usually awarding between 30 and 35 Peabodys each year. There are no set number of awards given, and the board does not choose winners according to categories. We do not have a list of finalists or “nominees” as other awards programs have.

Basically we have entrants and winners.

Danna L. Williams Senior Administrative Assistant, emailed Feb. 6th 2006 ”

In other words, you could nominate me, I could nominate you, and we could all nominate Bozo the Clown. The Peabody panel will most likely be interested in these suggestions, but ultimately it is THEY who choose the winners – not the public. There are no official lists of “nominees”. Rense’s website claim to be a “7 Time Peabody Award Nominee” is not only misleading, it means essentially nothing. It is presented to create a false impression of Rense’s achievements, basically it’s deceptive bullshit.

Talkers Magazine

Claim # 2: The Rense website states: “Talkers magazine top 100 Host”

Talkers Magazine ‘Heavy Hundred’

Truth: Please note that Jeff Rense isn’t listed in the top 100, and he isn’t even listed in the additional 250 names cited in the rest of Talkers Top Radio Show Host picks for 2006. Rense failed to make the cut for 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, etc. Rense was on the list once about 6 or 7 years ago, according to a response to my inquiry from Talkers. In fact, they find it pretty interesting that Jeff Rense is continuing to present this claim on his website, creating the appearance of his inclusion on this popular list, when in fact he is currently not listed. Talkers characterized this misleading representation in one word: “deceptive”, saying they will be keeping an eye on Rense and any Talkers-related claims from here on. Take a look at the list linked above. Call Talkers Magazine and ask them yourself if he is indeed on the Heavy Hundred list.

Claim #3: Rense’s Myspace web page at:

Rense My Space Profile lists his location as Ashland, Oregon – yet his Rense.com fan page says he is in California. Which is it? Oregon or California? Does Rense have two residences? If so, how does one afford two residences on an Internet radio income?

Of course, the answer could be that one is his residence and the other is his business address, but again I ask: if he is just doing his thing because he is a “true patriot,” knowing how hard it is for other true patriots to make ends meet, we have to ask who is paying for his office? What money is backing him? His MySpace page states an income of $100,000-$150,000 per year. That’s a pretty good chunk of change for a guy who claims to be in the business out of the goodness of his heart and his interest in truth.

Claim #4: Jeff Rense From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Former television news anchorman Jeff Rense, who lives in Santa Barbara, California, is a popular conspiracy theorist and is the host of the Jeff Rense program which is broadcast on terrestrial radio and on the Internet. He 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. Rense does not subscribe to any conventional political standpoint and many of his views are simultaneously left and right leaning. Rense has one brother: writer, 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.”

Here we learn that Rense’s views are simultaneously both left-leaning and right-leaning. Sounds like an impossible contortion to me. It is also established from more than one source that Jeff’s father, Arthur Rense, formerly a sportswriter and sometime poet, also landed a job at Douglas Aircraft doing PR. How does a poet and sports writer qualify for work as a public relations director at Douglas Aircraft, one of the biggies of the Military Industrial Complex? Here is the NY Times obituary for Arthur Rense:

Arthur F. Rense, Public Relations Executive, 74
Published: January 5, 1991
“Arthur F. Rense, a retired public relations executive, died on Dec. 28 at his home in Las Vegas, Nev. He was 74 years old. He died of leukemia, said his wife, Paige Rense, editor in chief of Architectural Digest. Mr. Rense had been director of public relations for the Summa Corporation, owned by Howard R. Hughes, until he retired in 1985. He had been public relations director for the missiles and space systems division of Douglas Aircraft Company and director of public relations at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. Besides his wife, Mr. Rense is survived by three sons from a former marriage, Kirk of Irvine, Calif., Jeff of Santa Barbara , Calif., and Rip of Sherman Oaks, Calif.; four brothers, Randy, Andy and Frank, all of Cleveland, and William of Denver; and two grandchildren.”

Regarding Summa Corporation: The Washington Post for April 1, 1975, carried this information:

Summa Corp. is the financial umbrella under which most of (Howard)Hughes’ worth is contained. . . .Most recently, another Summa “asset” hit the news: the $350 million Hughes Glomar Explorer vessel that Hughes built at the behest (and the expense of) the Central Intelligence Agency . . . Mormons, Hughes, & CIA

Summa Corporation has been tied to CIA contracts on more than one occasion, to say the least. Douglas Aircraft Company is also well-known for its numerous government contracts, not to mention the starring role it is now playing in Bush’s Endless War. So again I ask: how did “poet and sports writer” Arthur Rense end up as public relations director for Douglas Aircraft and Summa Corp? In bed with the Feds? More importantly, what kind of connections does his son Jeff have with these same gangs? After all, his views are “both left and right” which suggests that he could have “left” views to vacuum in his audience all the while subtly converting them to “right” views.

Douglas Aircraft also has ties with RAND Corporation:

RAND (Encyclopedia)

The RAND Corporation is an American think tank.

“A think tank is a group of individuals dedicated to high-level synergistic research on a variety of subjects, usually in military laboratories, corporations,… first formed to offer research and analysis to the U.S. military. The organization has since expanded to working with other government and commercial organizations Project RAND was set up in 1945 by the USAAF, under contract to the Douglas Aircraft Company. An interesting aside, Condoleezza Rice is a former RAND CorporationTrustee 1991-1997 and current Secretary of State for the United States, a war whore if ever there was one.”

Okay, I think everybody knows that Summa, Douglas Aircraft, and RAND are all major players with DOD, military and intelligence agencies in the fascist government that Jeff Rense claims to oppose. Yet we find that his father, Arthur Rense, poet, sports writer, was “somehow” a public relations director for both Douglas Aircraft and Summa Corporation? I would very much like to hear Jeff Rense publicly discuss this curious fact one of these fine days and explain how he could live much of his life with alphabet soup guys swarming around and avoid being sucked into the game. Funny how this topic never seems to come up, isn’t it? Perhaps he just keeps forgetting to mention it.

Now I want to come back to the fact that Jeff Rense has been “honored” by being listed on an official government website as a major purveyor of “disinformation.” Among the conspiracy minded crowd, that is a high kudo indeed. But is it evidence that Jeff truly is a news source standing in opposition to the Bush Reich and their Endless Wars of Lies and Agression? Maybe not. As Robin Ramsay, Editor of Lobster Magazine, wrote in the February issue of Fortean Times:

Recently, the US State Department has begun trying to rebut some of the current conspiracy theories about America. Their first targets were a couple of websites - www.rense.com and Conspiracy Planet - and the late Joe Vialls, an Australian. What a boost for the named sites! Attacked by the State Department![…]

[Y]ou don’t have to be a PR genius to see that what you simply mustn’t do is launch official attacks: all they do is amplify and legitimise the theories by announcing that they are deemed to be worth attacking. [Fortean Times 206, February 2006, p. 19]

What a coup for Rense and Alex Jones! To be officially declared the primo disinfo sites! Now, if you know anything about COINTELPRO, you expect that the real COINTELPRO operations will be attacked “officially” in order to legitimize them exactly as Robin Ramsay has described. That also means that those who are honest and sincere seekers of truth and who do their homework and expose the lies of the Bush Reich will most certainly NOT be martyred by the official government. It’s way too dangerous and gives them legitimacy. Rather, they will be defamed by the “officially designated disinformation agents” – and dare we say it? – agents of COINTELPRO - such as Jeff Rense, Alex Jones and similar disinformation agents that have received the Bush Reich seal of approval. In fact, it seems that this is a well-orchestrated plan that is described in detail in that much maligned document, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” A really good way to keep your eye on the ball is to consider Protocol 12…

Now, it is important when reading the Protocols to not assign it’s origin to any national, ethnic, or religious group. Rather, consider it to be a statement of any group that seeks to control and dominate and use the public for their own gain Then you will truly begin to understand who is who. (Excerpts of Protocol 12: Control of the Press are located at the end of this article):

Recently, Jeff Rense accused WING TV of engaging in deception, trickery, subterfuge, lying, slandering and libel, just to name a few of the charges. He has publicly called Victor Thorn and myself “dirtball scum” and together with Alex Jones and their groupies, charged us with being “cointelpro assets, government agents and un-American operatives.” True to form and apparently attached to Rense at the hip and the lip, (and linked on the official government site, I should add), Alex Jones reinforces, endorses, and repeats Rense’s vomitus, only louder. What’s amusing about this is that Rense, Jones, nor any of their groupie parrots have yet to substantiate any of these bogus charges made against us.

Let me get this straight: nobody has to qualify with data anything they say, including (and particularly) veteran journalist Jeff Rense? Alex Jones has yet to qualify any of his ridiculous comments about us either, and he refuses to hold himself accountable for his own words.

Ask yourself: Why? Is it conceivable to anyone out there that they cannot PROVE the things they say about WING TV? Moreover, this begs the question, can they prove any and all of the other “gospel-truth” claims they’ve made over the years? That is another very good question.

You see, we are supposed to just believe what they say simply because they say it. Forget about facts, data or substantiation. Forget about showing evidence of their assertions; forget about journalistic ethics; just nod your head and agree. Don’t ask questions. Gobble up the lies and twisted half-truths and get your fill of the fix du jour. After all, in the words of Jeff Rense, it is all a “theater of the mind”.

What we observe is that both Rense and Jones pander to a “least common denominator” audience demographic, the people out there who don’t bother to check things out for themselves and will just repeat what they hear and read over and over, like good little automatons. This is the ideal Rense-Jones target audience, one which will worship blindly, surrender critical thinking skills, believe without questioning or disagreement, and of course, shell out the bucks.

Incidentally, I did a search on Kennedy Grey, the LA writer who penned the article about Rense entitled “The Most Dangerous Man in Talk Radio”. He (she) is supposedly the founder of a group called RAS, an acronym for ‘Rock Against Suicide’. Unfortunately, a Google search for Kennedy Grey did not yield a website for the RAS group anywhere, but there is an interview with Kennedy Grey on this website: The Internet Nirvana Fan club.

Nirvana Fan Club. Oh boy, how impressive. A Curt Cobain suicide website.

I was not able to find any links online to Grey’s organization, RAS, or to Kennedy Grey, other than the single article he wrote which is published on Rense.com. I would like to find Kennedy Grey and ask whether he/she even bothered to check out any of the claims Rense made to him in the interview. I’d like to learn if Kennedy Grey is a real person, for that matter, or just a construct of Rense. Whatever the case may be, it doesn’t look like Grey checked out any of the statements Rense made in that interview. If some fact-checking had been done, Grey’s article would probably be written a bit differently. At the very least, it should have been.

Rense and Alex Jones enjoy howling that “Honest-to-God patriots” NEVER attack other patriots. That sounds a lot like:

“For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy…. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification.” [Protocols]

The fact is, those who do the research know that the Founding Fathers engaged in a great deal of spirited, heated, sincere dispute with one another. Some of them hated one another with a passion, yet in spite of this animosity, worked together for the common good of all; as the cause was greater than themselves, and they all knew this to be true. So where do Rense and Jones come off bellowing such obnoxious bullshit, especially when we consider the fact that merely branding oneself a “patriot” does not necessarily make it so. I could call myself “Madonna”, but that doesn’t mean I AM Madonna.

Appearances can be very deceiving, especially when some so-called “patriots” choose to hide behind microphones in undisclosed locations, behind wigs and a couple of re-touched, photo-shopped cartoon pictures of themselves, and when all they choose to disclose is a limited amount of extremely vague babble about their alleged past accomplishments, achievements, or experience designed solely to “create a legend”.

And then, when we discover, with a minimum of investigation, that their claims do not hold up, that it is all completely manipulated, twisted, exaggerated, amplified and contorted facts designed to present a false front, we are entitled to question everything else. Why do people tell lies, whether overtly or by omission? Some do it because of mental issues, some do it for profit, and some do it just because they can.

Bottom line: Jeff Rense has falsely accused WING TV of trading in lies, deception, duplicity, innuendo, disinformation and trickery. Jeff Rense better start looking in the mirror, because I see a so-called “patriot” that needs to come clean about a few things, someone who is “not known for his honesty”.

Definitions of deception on the Web:

• misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
• the act of deceiving
• magic trick: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
• Deception is providing intentionally misleading information to others.
• To practice deceit.
• To give a false impression: appearances can deceive.
• To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
• to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid intransitive verb : to practice deceit
• be false to; be dishonest with - 2: cause someone to believe an untruth

Stay tuned, because this investigation is not over. More to follow soon.

“The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
~ Tom Waitts ~

Protocol 12: Control of the Press

1. The word “freedom,” which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows –

2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.

3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? …

For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy…. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification.

I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO ALTER. WE CONTROL THE PRESS

4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.

5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the GOY communities to such an extent that they all come near looking upon the events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king of all the world ….

6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to establish its limits …. All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest…. FREE PRESS DESTROYED

7. We turn to the periodical press. … if there should be any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their productions. Before accepting any production for publication in print, the publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated of.

8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the public mind …. If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.

9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant. 10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent.

11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.

12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions — aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists …. Like the Indian idol “Vishnu” they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.

13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the title of central department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.

14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders. ONLY LIES PRINTED

15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government. Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it …. WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refute them except very superficially.

16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.

17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are forms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practice literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or other …. These sores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country - the mob follow after him with enthusiasm.

18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same - ours. WHAT WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need is that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.

19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED … Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses - no more.

I think that all of the above may sound very familiar to all of you reading this. The only difference is that now we work with the Internet and not printed materials. But the principles are the same.

It is the Fourth of July today. Many people here, in the US, are sending greeting cards to each other on this day. I noticed today a kind of a “greeting card” on one of the best alternative news” web sites. The song is called “You lied” and is dedicated to George W. Bush. Here are the words:

You lied

You told the world Saddam had chemical bombs
To kill us in our homes, and on our farms
You said he sent his men into the heavens
big planes crashing down, September 11

You lied, You lied,
People died, When Bush lied

I’ve got some questions, wipe that smirk off your face
Betraying your people, that’s a real disgrace
See I’m having a hard time finding that plane
that you said hit the Pentagon, bursting into flames
Vapourising the aircraft, didn’t leave no remains
But the bodies appear not to burn quite the same

More lies Yeah, yeah, more lies
America died, When Bush lied

And talk about mir’cles, did you see how they fell,
the three towers in New York, those charges worked well
Flattened out in a straight line, just like it was planned
Did you think we were so stupid that we wouldn’t understand
And it’s a pity about the folks there on Flight 93,
Just as they took back control, you blew them to smithereens

You lied, You lied
Heroes died, when Bush lied

You say Osama is living in a place you have traced
But you don’t go and get him, it seems such a waste
Could it be it’s because he’s still one of your men
A C-I-A asset just like he was then
He endorsed your campaign in a last minute pitch
Is he just one more man who has gotten quite rich

From your lies, Your lies
Freedom died, from your lies

How about those Israelis dancing to their success,
On the rooftops of Jersey, they created a mess
So you sent them back home with a slap on the wrist
Told the cops not to bother, ‘cause they don’t exist

It’s a lie, You lied
Justice died, when you lied

Now people are dying through your crimes in Iraq
You’ve killed more than Saddam, though you don’t care to keep track
Cause they’re only some Arabs in a faraway land
That Yahweh has promised to his chosen band
While Sharon and his cronies pull on your strings
When he opens his mouth your whole government sings

His lies, His lies
Palestinians die, With Bush lies

Next time you talk to your God, I’ve got a question for him
What side is he on or does it change on a whim’
There’s a whole lot of people, suff’rin here in his name
What kind of pyscho is he that he’s playing this game
It sounds more like the devil is guiding your hand
Destruction and death are the plagues of the land

of your lies, your lies
Children die, When Bush lies

You see, Mr President, there’s something amiss
Two elections you lost, but you overcame this
By rigging the vote, not counting the blacks
You’ve ensured two full terms, the dry drunk is back
And now they’re changing the laws to get you a third
The brown shirts are charging at the front of the herd

of your lies, your lies
Democracy dies, When Bush lies

The question remains what can we do about this
Most people refuse to consider this list
They’re lost in illusion, can’t recognise proof
so we offer this song to all who stand for the truth

No more lies, No more lies
Must we all die, Because of your lies

No more lies, No more lies
Must we all die, Because of your lies

Your lies…

You can listen to the tune of it in mp3 format here.