By John Donovan
In view of the news reports over the past 24 hours featured below, it appears that some may wish to add the term “porn peddler” to Shell’s extensive list of sins in the USA.
Shell Oil Company seems to have got itself in an embarrassing mess as an activist group claims that a Shell executive responded to their email by telling them that the two well known magazines – Playboy and Penthouse, were no longer considered to be pornography. However, Shell apparently takes issue with this account. Three salient articles are accessible below.
Shell already has an *atrocious track record in the USA which includes the sale of tainted gasoline, the explosion at a Shell Oil refinery in Norco in which six people lost their lives, Clean Air Act violations, repeated environmental infringements in Louisiana, a pipeline rupture in Washington State which resulted in an explosion and more deaths, repeated multimillion dollar fines for groundwater contamination, fines for unauthorised venting and flaring of gas and pollution at Shell’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
*Details on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Royal_Dutch_Shell
The Porn Reports…
worldnetdaily.com: ‘Penthouse’ no longer porn, Shell announces
Policy change allows sale of ‘adult sophisticates’ by retailers
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55248
RenewAmerican.us: Does Shell Oil Co. support sex abuse?
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/070420
Convenience Store Decisions: Activists Assail Circle K Over Magazines
Group protests sale of pornography in area stores.
http://www.csdecisions.com/news/article/52695/activists_assail_circle_k_over_magazines.aspx
CitizenLink.org: Florida Shell Stations Bring Back Porn Magazines
4-20-2007
In an e-mail to FFA, Otto O. Meyers III, a spokesman for Shell, wrote, “Our investigation has concluded that these stores are not selling pornography as one would think the general public defines it, but rather ‘adult sophisticate’ magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse.”
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004444.cfm
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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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Intersting that you refer to Shell as a porn peddler yet you are happy to quote Chevalier wrt to Lord Browne’s alleged merger with Shell..