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Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano: This is a spill of national significance
Friday, 30 April 2010 13:15 UK
The US administration has banned oil drilling in new areas of the US coast pending investigations into the cause of the oil spill off Louisiana.
“No additional drilling has been authorised and none will until we find out what happened,” White House adviser David Axelrod told ABC television.
Last month President Barack Obama eased a moratorium on new offshore drilling.
Up to 5,000 barrels of oil a day are thought to be spilling into the water after last week’s rig explosion.
The slick has begun to reach the Louisiana shore, and the US Navy has been sent to help avert an economic and environmental disaster.
State of emergency
Mr Axelrod announced the ban on drilling in new areas in an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America programme on Friday.
He also defended the administration’s response to the 20 April explosion that destroyed the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon rig, saying “we had the Coast Guard in almost immediately”.
The US government has designated the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as an “incident of national significance”. This allows it to draw on resources from across the country.
The wetlands off the coast of Louisiana sustain hundreds of wildlife species and a big seafood and fishing industry.
Governor Bobby Jindal has declared a state of emergency and asked for federal funds to deploy 6,000 National Guard soldiers to help with the clean-up.
The states of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida are also threatened, as oil continues to escape from the wreckage of the rig.
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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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