By John Donovan
Interesting to read the news today that the repressive and barbaric Saudi regime is considering publicly listing the state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco.
The headline on one such article is: “Saudi Arabia’s Giant & Secretive Oil Company May Go For IPO“
It is ironical under the circumstances that retired Royal Dutch Shell Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, the long-time claimed champion of transparency and ethics, is a member of the Saudi Aramco board.
His late brother George Moody-Stuart was the highly respected Chairman of Transparency International.
His wife Lady Judy Moody-Stuart is “a self-styled activist Quaker.”
Sir Mark has not resigned from Saudi Aramco despite the secrecy for which the company is renowned, or the mass beheadings and other savagery carried out in Saudi Arabia at the behest of ministers in the Saudi government.
Some Saudi ministers, members of the appalling regime, are his boardroom colleagues.
I, therefore, remain genuinely puzzled by his continued presence on the Saudi Aramco board.
What could be the motive?
Also noted that Andrew Gould, Chairman of BG Group plc is another of his colleagues on the Saudi Aramco board. He, too, has been busy axing staff.
Were they involved in the initial discussions about a Shell/BG Group combination?
Shell is a partner with the Saudi regime in Motiva Enterprises. It has no compunctions about its business partners, whether Saudi Aramco or IG Farben in Nazi Germany.
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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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