By Christopher Brown-Humes
Published: December 30 2006 02:00 | Last updated: December 30 2006 02:00
…one of the surprises of the year was just how many of the UK’s top 20 companies did so badly. Six of them actually saw their share prices fall – BP, Shell, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, BHP Billiton and HSBC.
BP was the FTSE 100’s third worst performer, falling 8.3 per cent, while Royal Dutch Shell dropped 3.7 per cent. Both felt the effect of the drop in oil prices towards the end of the year but the average price of crude in 2006 was still almost 17 per cent higher than in 2005. BP was beset by problems in the US, including the fatal explosion at its Texas City refinery in March last year, an oil spill in Alaska in March and delays to the opening of the flagship Thunder Horse project in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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