The BBC is very concerned…it has just learnt that Arab leaders are being trained in oppressive and tyrannical techniques for suppressing public discourse and debate by the dictator’s training establishment of choice…RMA Sandhurst:
Sandhurst’s sheikhs: Why do so many Gulf royals receive military training in the UK?
Generations of foreign royals – particularly from the Middle East – have learned to be military leaders at the UK’s Sandhurst officer training academy. But is that still a good idea, asks Matthew Teller.
A critic might note that the third term of Sandhurst’s Officer Commissioning Course covers counter-insurgency techniques and ways to manage public disorder.
In March 2013, Sandhurst’s Mons Hall – a sports centre – was reopened as the King Hamad Hall, following a £3m donation from the monarch of Bahrain, who was educated at one of Sandhurst’s affiliated colleges.
Since tension between Bahrain’s majority Shia population and minority Sunni ruling elite boiled over in 2011, more than 80 civilians have died at the hands of the security forces, according to opposition estimates, though the government disputes the figures. Thirteen police officers have also lost their lives in the clashes.
I’m guessing Matthew Teller didn’t get the memo:
BBC admits errors in Bahrain unrest coverage
BBC initially underplayed the sectarian aspect of the conflict and did not adequately convey the viewpoint of supporters of the monarchy in its coverage of Bahrain’s unrest, said a BBC Trust report.
It also failed to mention attempts by Crown Prince His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to establish dialogue with the opposition, according to the publication – which investigated the organisation’s “impartiality and accuracy” of its coverage of the Arab Spring.
No mention of all those universities that get funding and compromise their independence for Arab money:
‘Extremism’ fear over Islam studies donations
Extremist ideas are being spread by Islamic study centres linked to British universities and backed by multi-million-pound donations from Saudi Arabia and Muslim organisations, a new report claims.
Eight universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, have accepted more than £233.5 million from Saudi and Muslim sources since 1995, with much of the money going to Islamic study centres, according to the report.
The total sum, revealed by Anthony Glees, the director of Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, amounts to the largest source of external funding to UK universities.
The BBC had no problem taking terrorists paintballing though:
BBC film ‘paid for paintballing terror suspects’
Terrorists were given a day’s paintballing for a BBC documentary called Don’t Panic I’m Islamic, a court heard.
And the BBC has no problem training the media in other volatile countries:
The Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) was established under a Law on Broadcasting adopted by Parliament in 2004. GPB is publicly accountable to the citizens of Georgia with a mandate “to provide accurate and up-to-date information that is free from political and commercial bias and is shared without any hidden agendas.”
Absolutely not…no hidden agendas for a state broadcaster…just like in good old Blighty….not a chance in hell the new techniques will be used to close down debate and suppress dissent.
Most Georgians depend on television as their main source of news and GPB has the widest reach amongst the population of nearly five million.
BBC World Service Trust supported GPB’s board of trustees in becoming representatives of the public and guardians of the station’s independence.
It also helped develop a human resources policy and, as the project developed, supported GPB in creating a second television channel devoted to parliamentary and political reporting, the Second Channel.
Support was also given to GPB’s television news operation in developing an independent agenda showing favour neither to the government nor opposition.
I believe.
And what interesting countries the BBC chooses to work with…
Media Neighbourhood
The Media Neighbourhood project brings together media professionals from across 17 countries bordering the European Union for training and networking.
Participating countries: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, The Russian Federation, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine.
‘Occupied Palestinian territory‘?
It never fails to amaze me at how the bBC can take any subject and rip holes through it according to its leftwing dogma. So the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) has foreign people training there does it. Talk about dragging through shit for a story. Here are a few things the bBC doesn’t consider:
1) Foreign countries pay to send their children to British Establishments. That means if the bBC feels that the training of foreigners in our Military Establishments is wrong , then they should also agree with banning foreigners from being trained in our Colleges, Universities, Police academies and our many fine training Establishments.
2) By allowing foreign people to come to the UK, as much as we learn about them, we in turn learn about them. This exposure is something that pays dividends in that hopefully that they take back to their countries our modern way of life.
3) In training these people in the UK, we build links, links that ensure that these people when they come into positions of power in their own countries will not only look upon the UK as a favourable country in which to do business with, but hopefully some of the ways we work by (fairness, equality for all and best practices) are taken up by their own.
4) Lastly the bBC spends a lot of the tax payers money doing what RMAS does. To that end why is it wrong for foreign countries to send their young to Sandhurst, but not wrong for them to send them to the bBC,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/where_we_work/asia/bangladesh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/where_we_work/africa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/where_we_work/europe_and_caucasus/media_neighbourhood.html
what gets me is this, we train these lot at sandhurst and sell them arms and fighter jets but when it comes to fighting they run away like little girls blouses when confronted by a bunch of retarded islamist child killers and women rapers in pick up trucks with ak47s and kitchen knifes,then they expect us to go and fight there wars,no.we accept your money to buy are arms but dont involve us in your never ending muslim on muslim wars,no thanks sir.
This is partially due to the heroic levels of corruption and ethnic cleansing of competent but non-Shia senior officers which has left many of them without ammunition, leadership and direction when facing the IS fighter who are properly funded by yet other muslim nations
Hold on. While some news organisations were suffering a hard time from Hamas for trying to report something resembling the truth from Gaza rather than serving Hamas’ black propaganda campaign, BBC Gaza Correspondents, by their own admission, suffered not the slightest problems from Hamas, because (the part they miss out) they were in complete lockstep with Hamas’ propaganda objectives.
I wouldn’t say that the world of journalism has quite the same fear of the BBC as it has of Hamas, but it wouldn’t suprise me that if a news organisation did do an exposé of the complicity of the Goebbels Bureau of the BBC with a genocidal anti-semitic terrorist organisation, the next time their people were in Gaza they might ‘disappear’.
I guess it’s all that foreign money being pumped into British universities that makes the BBC the broadcasting arm of global anti-semitism.
You missed out the key words below there – the words that make all the difference to everything – hidden right at the bottom of the article :
“This project is funded by the European Union.”
Great spot. Funded bu the EU = beholden to the objectives of the EU (or lose your funding).
Occupied Palestinian territory‘?
Could be worse – STATE of PALESTINE
Can’t see any discernable point here by Alan. Maybe he could do with a bit of training himself?
Hope no one takes issues with this.
Well, once they have wiped the tears from their eyes.
Cracking debut… ‘Jerry’.