Oil Giant Has No Knowledge of News Release Sent in Its Name
By: Ken Wheaton Published: June 07, 2012 Shell, it seems, is being plagued by activists. And the media outlets (and that includes bloggers) that cover Shell, should be extra careful about rushing out news today. As Gawker’s Adrian Chen reported earlier, a video supposedly shot at a party thrown by the oil giant turned out to be a hoax. Also a hoax? A Shell news release we received not half an hour ago saying that the company was going to sue the parties responsible for the hoax video.The video, posted at the bottom of this story, was one of those too-good-to-check moments. At a party celebrating Shell’s Arctic expansion, a miniature oil rig designed to pump liquor malfunctions and sprays an elderly woman.The news release looked real enough. But the “proxymailing” bit in the “from” line and the vague nature of it set off my alarm bells. “Lawyers operating on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell plc. (Shell) are considering formal action against unknown activists who staged a counterfeit campaign launch event at the Seattle Space Needle,” reads the release.How a company could take formal action against unknown activists was beyond me. I also found it interesting that the supposed Shell release provided active links to the sites mocking the company. And that the phone number listed for U.S. media relations didn’t match to the number listed on the company’s actual website.It also helped that Ad Age was implicated in an earlier version of this foolishness back when the Yes Men went after Chevron. Note, we didn’t fall for the Yes Men’s hoax in that case, but rather the group created a fake Ad Age story to make its hoax seem that much more real.When I called Shell, I was told by a spokeswoman that she knew nothing of the news release and that it wasn’t generated by the company.SOURCE (Where fake video can be viewed)
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.
