October 28, 2004
Every cable news site should have a 'conspiracy theory' section!
Get all the dirt on the latest middle eastern paranoia, through al-Jazeera's web site: Is Bush planning to attack Iran before the election? (62% say yes) Was Israel behind 9/11? (another 62% say yes) Was the US behind recent violence in Lebanon? (81% say no) Is Australia's PM suffering from an Aboriginal curse? (80% say yes)
al-Jazeera, I love you.
They all seemed to be sourced from other places (check bottom), there's even a Fox News one at the top right now.
It's definitely a bizarre idea: take all the crackpot stories appearing elsewhere, and dump them in one place. To be fair, the votes are more a sign of Al Jazeera's readers than their opinions.
If you want a good perspective on Al Jazeera, I'd strongly recommend watching the documentary Control Room. I certainly didn't come out of it thinking they were unbiased, but they aren't the pro-al-qaeda nuts they get portrayed as in the american media.
i was under the impression that Al-jazeera.com != the Al-jazeera news organization
what blogRot said.
Yup - aljazeera.net is the actual Aljazeera site.
Sure, that's what they want you to believe.
When multiple conspiracies cross over and cancel each other out, what can one believe these days?
Actually, yeah, does anyone have the scoop on aljazeera.net/.com? What's up with that? Is .com just a hoax, or is it another company trying to pass itself off as aljazeera, or what?
From network solutions:
aljazeera.com: no contact names
Current Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
IP Address: 193.19.159.129
IP Location: UK(UNITED KINGDOM)
Record Type: Domain Name
Data as of: 08-Jun-2004
Updated Date: 30-may-2004
Creation Date: 12-apr-1996
aljazeera.net:Jazeera Space Channel TV station
[snip]
Domain Name: ALJAZEERA.NET
Administrative Contact :
Al Seddiqi, Salah
[snip]
Technical Contact :
Navlink, Administrator
[snip]
Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
IP Address: 12.120.13.19
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-ILLINOIS-HERRIN
Record Type: Domain Name
Record expires on 29-Aug-2010
Record created on 30-Aug-1996
looks like someone got .com first, so the broadcasters took .net... there is suspiciously little information attached to the .com listing.
I was always under the impression that the .com was created with the direct purpose of discrediting al-Jazeera.
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