By John Donovan
Monday 18 Jan 2016
The Sunday Times reports that Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive, Ben van Beurden is looking strained and admits to being nervous while watching events unfold.
The events no doubt being the continuing collapse in the price of oil and the related panicked reaction from some major shareholders.
The world is awash with low-cost oil and the end of Iranian sanctions will add to the glut and likely send prices even lower.
Naturally BvB tries to talk up the oil price despite all of the signs being that it is still on the way down and according to some independent experts, likely to remain depressed for a protracted period.
Van Beurden speaks in the article about the period in which he was the personal assistant of Shell Chairman Sir Philip Watts during the reserves scandal. He said his time with Sir Philip was a real eye opener. I’ll bet it was.
Now BvB gets the big bucks. £19.5m. (Around $30m)
Among the further items of trivia learned from the latest article is that his favourite movie is Dances with Wolves and favourite song the Rollings Stones classic: Satisfaction. Nothing startling.
However, no one can deny that BvB is bold and courageous in his job – more so than any other Shell leader for decades.
The Shell vote is on 27 Jan and the following day, BG Group.
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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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