WhoIs: Daniel Bethlehem

ꕤ WhoIs SOURCE http://www.20essexst.com/member/daniel-bethlehem Other:  Link  |  here Sir Daniel Bethlehem, QC Knighted - Queen's Birthday Honours List - June 2010 referred to as:  'Netanyahu's favourite lawyer' (Craig Murray) see BETHLEHEM DOCTRINE (extra-judicial assassination) raised South Africa / b. London 1960 University of the Witwatersrand,  Johannesburg BA degree in 1981 Political Science & International Relations Bristol University - LLB, 1985 Cambridge - Queens' College - LLM, 1990 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Practice European Union law International & European human rights law For:  States, international and non-governmental organisations, corporations and individuals Appeared EU courts in Luxembourg European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg "acted both as counsel and as agent, overseeing and guiding the strategic formulation of litigation and dispute settlement policy" Advises re  OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises  Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) "International organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy." cases:  UK National Contact Point  under those guidelines  On-going investor-State arbitration appointments  *not at present accepting instructions as counsel in investor-State arbitration proceedings extensive experience as arbitrator  (as presiding & as party-appointed) range of investor-State arbitrations ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Academic Posts 2003 - 2006 University of Cambridge Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law 1998 - 2003 Fellow of Clare Hall University of Cambridge 1992 - 1998 London School of Economics lecturer in international law USA Columbia Law School in New York Visiting Professor of Law ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Prior investment banking (legal) Barclays de Zoete Wedd Nikko Securities first-hand observation: 1986 - “Big Bang” deregulation of the London financial markets 1987 stock market crash ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Foreign Policy Advisory Legal Policy International Ltd (LPI) - Director Advisory Council British Institute of International & Comparative Law Advisory Committee Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Counsellor of the Executive Council American Society of International Law Previously member of Council British Branch of the International Law Association Advisory Council Institute of Advanced Legal Studies USA Visiting Professor of Law Columbia Law School in New York Palantir Technologies UK Ltd 2013 - joined the Board International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) =  consulting Senior Fellow for Law and Strategy SOURCE http://www.20essexst.com/member/daniel-bethlehem Also:  Link  |  here (below) Articles Craig Murray:  re Legal Advice Extra-judiciary Assassinations How the British Establishment Works Link  |  here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Above is a summary of only what caught my eye.  Full details are at link provided.  Did not check additional info sources, beyond Craig Murray article re 'Bethlehem Doctrine' on extra-judicial assassinations by state. Daniel Bethlehem sounds like an ideal lawyer to defend Australian journalist Julian Assange ... but I'd say that Mr Bethlehem is very much an establishment lawyer: on board of Palantir Technologies UK Ltd; &  a consulting Senior Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies. Imagine what this guy's fees are. Must be so nice to be clever.  And the rewards aren't just financial:  clever people get to shape policy on a world stage. Assange Transnational Security Elite, Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money London  OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) Link  |  here ꕤ

Totalitarian Britain, CIA Lawsuit, Sacred Cows & Incongruous Libertarian Package

UK Police State Unbelievable harassment of politically active university students by the police state in Britain: Monitoring of protest groups “raw, unvarnished intimidation and activist-busting."  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/25/police-covert-recruit-activists-spies-cambridge?CMP=share_btn_tw ......................................................... VIDEO UK Police try to recruit activist to spy on Cambridge students & political groups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_hGQETyhXk ......................................................... CIA IS SUED CIA sued by “non-official cover” operative  “Madhouse: A Forbidden Novel of the CIA"  http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/7805012-74/cia-lawsuit-officer ......................................................... SACRED COWS & INCONGRUOUS LIB PACKAGE Snowden praised for fighting government surveillance… by group that LOVES corporate surveillance By Mark Ames  On February 20, 2015 Last Friday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Skyped into a Washington DC Marriott Hotel conference hall to proudly accept “The Students For Liberty Alumnus of the Year Award.”  http://pando.com/2015/02/20/strange-bedfellows/ The Gist NSA whistleblower, Snowden, accepts Students for Libery award. Peter Thiel, founder of one of NSA’s biggest contractors, Palantir Technologies Gets Students For Liberty award  "Snowden’s nemesis, former NSA chief Keith Alexander, praised Palantir’s usefulness to the spy agency"  Greenwald has characterized Pando’s criticism of him as CIA plot hatched by Thiel  Thiel Founders Fund $300k in Pando previously Students for Liberty is anything but that: awarded “Event of the Year” to anti-Marxist 'libs' at Honduras’ National University Hey, Students of Liberty: Leftists & journalists in Honduras terrorized since 2009 US-backed coup!!!!!!  Snowden  “If the government will not be stewards of our rights, we can encode our rights into our system.”   Source:  http://pando.com/2015/02/20/strange-bedfellows/ Students For Liberty  gets most of its money from Koch brothers worked closely with US govt big corporate sponsors Students For Liberty’s Board Advisors incl Prince von Liechtenstein offshore banking tax haven of global billionaires / Switzerland too transparent Students For Liberty f. 2008 Alexander McCobin (emp @ Cato Institution, neé “The Charles Koch Foundation”) 💥 Koch Alarm 💥 Students for Liberty Ron Paul + Andrew Napolitano, Cato Institution / FoxNews truther Ron Paul presidential campaign 2012 Thiel funded /Snowden & Greenwald support Sen. Rand Paul Presidential campaign 2016 funded by Thiel’s co-founder at Palantir: Joe Lonsdale (Rand Paul’s finance team) 2011 Palantir sponsored Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Awards winners incl: >Glenn Greenwald >Laura Poitras >Tor Project >EFF co-founder Mitch Kapor >EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow Palantir & Peter Thiel   bravely fighting type of govt surveillance ably assisted by … Palantir & Peter Thiel   [LOL ... Pando] ......................................................... COMMENT Above are some of the things that caught my attention. The police attack on what is supposed to be a democratic right in Britain is disgraceful and, really, quite frightening and totalitarian, if you stop to think about what's going on.  And this is just the tip of an iceberg in Britain. More press on the CIA lawsuit would be good: The officer filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under a pseudonym, Mack L. Charles. The CIA declined to comment but did not dispute the plaintiff's former association with the agency. [1] CIA stands accused of illegally barring publishing of a novel (which isn't a first, as I recall). Finally, there's the hilarious Pando article (I love those guys).  No idea if they're really the 'bad' guys, if they're just funny bastards poking at some sacred cows, or if there is indeed something very odd about the convergence of these incongruous relationships. Trying to keep an open mind, but Koch, Thiel (NSA praise), Students for Liberty and the rest of it is a package way hard to swallow. Koch is 'cook' in German, by the way. Hmmmm ...