By MICHAEL CONNOLLY
September 6, 2006
RUSSIAN ENERGY: While OAO Gazprom’s decision to pay Turkmenistan more for natural gas will likely improve the reliability of supplies to Europe this winter, reducing prospects for a repetition of last winter’s disruption reductions with Ukraine, the deal further tightens Moscow’s grip on supplies from Central Asia.
Continuing the theme, efforts further east by Russia’s environmental regulator to revoke approval for a $20 billion international oil-and-gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC on the Pacific island of Sakhalin could pressure Shell to offer Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, better terms as it jostles to join what will be the world’s biggest liquefied natural-gas development.
Meanwhile, the abrupt postponement by Russia’s Defense Ministry of joint military exercises in central Russia with U.S. forces designed to improve cooperation on counter-terrorism and peacekeeping missions is one more sign of tension between Moscow and Washington. Postponement of the exercises, scheduled to start this month, follows criticism from the Communist Party and other groups angry over the prospect of U.S. troops on Russian soil.
Read Gregory L. White and Alan Cullison’s report on the gas deal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115748058510454066.html
Read the article on Sakhalin:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115748573538754184.html
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
