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Mud-smeared BP logos, boycotts, and an almost halved market value indicate deep disgust over the handling of the oil slick
Andrew Clark in New York: Wednesday 2 June 2010 17.37 BST
At a service station in downtown Manhattan, the British company’s green and yellow logo has been defaced with huge brown smears of mud. Protesters clad as oil-soaked mermaids have occupied garage forecourts, anti-BP demonstrations are taking place from Los Angeles to Florida, and a boycott BP campaign is creating a buzz on the internet.
BP’s name is, quite simply, dirt. Americans are disgusted with the once proud London-based energy company.
As political leaders threaten criminal prosecution and possible seizure of the company’s assets, and environmentalists bay for blood, BP’s stock is plummeting: it has fallen by a third since the Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire on 20 April, causing the worst oil slick in US history. In financial circles, questions are growing about whether BP can salvage its reputation in the US and whether the company can survive as an independent entity at all.
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.
