Like Mr Voser BvB seemed eager to assume the top job and appeared to be decisive, which was encouraging. That was before he became an apparent victim of what is being described as Shell’s current “annus horribilis.” Seems to be an annual event.
By John Donovan
Not exactly an inspiring start by the new Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Ben van Beurden.
Three weeks into his tenure and already one of his executive director colleagues has suddenly left the company without any rational explanation. Now we have the profits warning that took the markets by surprise and a related admission by BvB that “our 2013 performance was not what I expected from Shell.”
I can only surmise that he has not been a regular visitor to this website, or he might have been rather better informed than apparently has been the case, if we are to believe his claim of ignorance, as if he was some mere bystander.
There have been countless news reports from around the world about the profits warning, but thus far none has highlighted the fact that BvB was an executive director of Royal Dutch Shell Plc during the period in question (from a year ago) and therefore has to accept a share of the blame for what has gone wrong.
There will be no dodging responsibility now that he has the top job.
Like Mr Voser BvB seemed eager to assume the top job and appeared to be decisive, which was encouraging. That was before he became an apparent victim of what is being described as Shell’s current “annus horribilis.” Seems to be an annual event.
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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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