THE NEW YORK TIMES
By JOHN M. BRODER July 9, 2010, 3:02 pm
The seven-member commission assembled by President Obama to investigate the BP spill has hired Richard A. Sears, a longtime Royal Dutch Shell scientist, engineer and offshore drilling expert, to be its chief technical adviser. Mr. Sears is on loan to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a visiting scientist at the universitys Laboratory for Energy and the Environment.
Richard A. SearsMr. Sears, whose most recent title at Shell before his retirement last year was vice president and external research coordinator, has broad experience with offshore oil operations.
He has been a senior Shell executive on deepwater exploration, a project manager on operations in the Gulf of Mexico and head of exploration evaluation for the North Sea in England and Scotland. He has written and spoken frequently about the search for alternative fuels as well as the challenges of ultra-deepwater drilling.
Mr. Sears lives in Houston and describes his current position as consultant/gamechanger at LeadingEnergyNow, a consulting firm in the energy industry.
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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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