(George C. Scott as General George S. Patton)
Recipients of this email missive from David Greer, the beleaguered Deputy CEO of Sakhalin Energy (a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell), were confused by some of it’s more confusing and/or rather archaic turns of phrase. “Pipeliners and engineers love to fight and win, traditionally” Greer observes, puzzlingly. He continues, “All real engineers love the sting and clash of real challenge.” Stinging and clashing not traditionally associated with engineering, you’d have to say, but maybe that’s just how this fucker rolls.
Most bizarrely of all, he speculates that “when every one of you were kids, you admired the champion marble player…”
Sadly, this stirring, inspirational memo turned out to have been ripped off, almost in its entirety, from General George S. Patton’s famous Speech to the Troops on the eve of the D-Day landings. That’s the same speech, incidentally, which delivered by George C. Scott in the Oscar winning movie Patton, and which appears in almost every anthology of historical oratory ever published. So near yet so far, eh Davey Boy?
Patton was famous for his no-holds-barred rhetorical style. Based on the same speech, here’s how Greer’s memo could have finished, if he wasn’t a total pussy:
“We’re going to murder those lousy [rival oil company] cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. [Engineering] is a bloody business. You’ve got to bust their [T-squares], or they will bust yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you, and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that, instead of dirt, it’s the blood and guts of what once was your best friend’s [scientific calculator], you’ll know what to do!”
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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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