Robert Lea, Evening Standard
8 October 2007, 12:13pm
Dreadful. It’s the word that BP chief executive Tony Hayward has chosen to describe the oil major’s operational performance. And it is the word that sparked the latest sell-off in shares of a giant that the City is finding difficult to trust.
As the oil price hovers around record highs of $80 a barrel, many economists and analysts like those at Goldman Sachs believe it is but a staging post on the way toward the $100 barrel.
The price has quadrupled over the past decade, bringing back the twin spectres of the £1-a-litre petrol price and £1000-a-year household energy charges once the gas price has been dragged back up, as well as the rising general costs that forced the Bank of England to admit it had failed to keep a lid on inflation.
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.
