By Emiko Terazono
Published: October 17 2008 03:00 | Last updated: October 17 2008 03:00
Rupert Murdoch caused quite a stir when he showed up at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2007 after several years of snubbing the alpine talking shop for bigwigs.
Since then, he seems to have embraced the shindig. He even played waiter at the last meeting in January, alongside the Google founders and rock star Bono, serving wine at a dinner for wives and female executives. For next year’s jamboree, he will be one of the event’s co-chairs.
Together with other co-chairs – Stephen Green , HSBC chairman, Shell chief Jeroen van der Veer , Bayer chairman Werner Wenning , Maria Ramos , chief executive of South Africa’s Transnet, and Yang Yuanqing , chairman of Lenovo – Mr Murdoch will be helping decide the themes of the event. The collapse of his Russian billboard business sale due to market madness, and News Corp stock falling below $10 notwithstanding, the financial crisis will be on top of the agenda.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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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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