JOHN DONOVAN NOVEMBER 10, 2014 ARTICLES

Shell gave Irish Cops enough alcohol to stock a pub

Nov 10th, 2014

by John Donovan. 

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Above item recently circulated by OSSL

EMAIL FROM JOHN DONOVAN TO FRANCES FITZGERALD, IRISH MINISTER FOR JUSTICE.  SENT 10 NOVEMBER 2014

From: John Donovan
Subject: OSSL Shell
Date: 10 November 2014 16:17:03 GMT
Cc: michiel.brandjes@shell.com
To: frances.fitzgerald@oireachtas.ie

Dear Justice Minster Frances Fitzgerald

I sent an email to you on 4 November 2014 regarding the corruption/blackmail allegations surrounding OSSL and Irish Shell.

The basic issue raised is whether OSSL has been blackmailing Shell in relation to alcohol improperly supplied to the Garda by OSSL on behalf of Shell.

In this connection, I supplied you with a covert recording of a consultation between OSSL directors and their then solicitor, Mr Marc Fitzgibbon of the Lavelle law firm in Dublin. I also supplied a transcript. Both are now accessible online.

I have now supplied links to copies of two additional highly material items.

Firstly a letter from Mr Fitzgibbon to Mr Desmond Kane dated 21 October 2014 marked Strictly Private & Confidential. It was addressed to Mr Kane in the UK. It confirmed that Shell had been in contact trying to arrange a conference call with Mr Fitzgibbon. Mr Crothers, the CEO/MD/Chairman of Shell E&P Ireland was an intended participant in the requested conference call. The announcement on my website of pending publication of the recording triggered the call by Shell to Lavelle. Why would Shell have that immediate major reaction if the allegations made by OSSL were without foundation? It seems reasonable to speculate that Shell realised that the whole cover-up is in the process of unravelling. Further contact was received by Lavelle on the subject by involved parties, including Shell.

A letter marked “Private & Confidential” dated 21 October 2014

The second item is an email string involving Mr Kane and Mr Fitzgibbon which took place from 25 July 2014 to 30 July 2014.

BLACKMAIL

In the email from Marc Fitzgibbon dated 28 July 2014 @ 11:30, Mr Fitzgibbon quotes from the settlement agreement between OSSL and Shell two years earlier.

The quote is within this extract.

Dear Desmond,

I refer to our recent meeting and have now had an opportunity to consult my file and notes regarding the matters that you talked to me about. In reviewing the file I looked at the settlement agreement that was executed at the mediation and it is clear from that document that the agreement releases Shell and Roadbridge from not just the claims in the proceedings but “from any and all liabilities and obligations that they may have out of or in connection with the matters the subject of the proceedings and from all past, present or future claims or causes of action howsoever and whensoever’s arising whether known or unknown” which you may have against either of them. This is effect is an acknowledgement that you are not owed anything further by Shell and would be a very good defence to any legal claim that you might bring against them for any monies that you say are outstanding.

OSSL knew two years ago that it had entered into an all claims agreement with Shell and Roadbridge and Mr Fitzgibbon reminded Mr Kane of this fact on 28 July. The OSSL money demands to Shell started soon after the agreement and have continued ever since, even after the July 2014 verbal and written reminders by Mr Fitzgibbon.

ALCOHOL

There are numerous references by Mr Fitzgibbon to the alcohol in his emails. He confirmed that the alcohol subject was openly discussed with Shell in his presence at a meeting held at Shell’s London HQ.

This is the alcohol that Shell (and the Garda) have desperately tried to pretend never existed. The problem being that it wasn’t just a few boxes of wine for Christmas, but enough to stock a pub.

Related emails from Marc Fitzgibbon

Since my last email to you, I have been advised that the Dutch investigative and prosecution authorities would consider a covertly obtained recording to be inadmissible.

Would this be the same under Irish law?

If so, I may decide to report the matter to the UK authorities where this might not be a hinderance. Mr Kane is a UK citizen and lives in the UK jurisdiction.

BTW, I have received an email response from Michelle McKiernan on behalf of the Taoiseach, but nothing from you thus far.

I can see the problems for you. The mind boggles at the thought of asking the Garda to investigate the Garda for a fourth time on the same toxic subject!

Yours sincerely
John Donovan

EMAIL SENT TO JOHN DONOVAN ON BEHALF OF THE TAOISEACH, MR. EDNA KENNY T.D.

Subject: email to the Taoiseach
To: johndonovan@
From: Ciara.Mahon@taoiseach.gov.ie
Date: 10 November 2014 14:26:42 GMT

Dear Mr. Donovan

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your email correspondence copied to the office of the Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny T.D., dated 4 November, 2014.
Yours sincerely,
Michelle McKiernan
Assistant Private Secretary
to the Taoiseach

ENDS

(Certain contact information deleted)

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BP a takeover target

Nov 10th, 2014

by John Donovan. 

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Ben Levisohn has written an article for Barron’s stoking up further the persistent speculation about the prospect of a takeover bid for BP. He quotes from an expert assessmentby Oppenheimer analysts Fadel Gheit and Luis Amadeo and points out that although they do not name names, the timing is right and the obvious contenders are Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total.  A merger between BP and any one of these rivals would create the worlds biggest oil producer. 

Big oil is exposed to falling prices who can survive?: 28 October 2014

Shell BP Mega-Merger?: 29 May 2014

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Posted in: BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, Total.
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The TRUTH will set you FREE.

A Nation of Fear

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MONDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2014 A Nation of Fear Walter Brasch: We are so afraid that someone else will get something more than we have, so instead of fighting to get better wages and working conditions, we attack unions and public school teachers.  READ MORE

A Nation of Fear

BY WALTER M. BRASCH

Maintenance workers at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania, airport shot and killed a bear and her three cubs.

The bears had crawled under a perimeter fence and were just lying around, several hundred yards from a runway. The airport director claimed the bears might have posed a risk to flights. The mother bear weighed less than most pro football linemen. While the airport officials were worrying about what a bear and her cubs might do, they probably should have been worrying why that fence wasn’t secure. If bears could crawl under it, couldn’t drunks or terrorists also get into unauthorized areas of the airport?

Earlier this year, the airport workers killed a bear who had gone onto a parking lot and climbed away from humans. The airport director also claimed the bear might have hurt someone. He claimed the reason the bears were not tranquilized was because his maintenance workers weren’t trained to tranquilize bears. He claimed the Game Commission possibly could not have gotten to the site fast enough to assist.

The airport director also said it wasn’t the policy to publicize the killings, apparently in an attempt to keep the public ignorant of what the airport does to animals.

A week later, about 30 miles away, near Catawissa, a Game Commission officer came onto private property and killed a baby raccoon that had posed no threat to anyone.

The family had rescued the raccoon after her mother was killed by a car. The family bottle-fed the raccoon. They made a small hutch for the raccoon who often went into the woods. The family says they planned to release the animal when it was strong enough, according to reporter Julye Wemple.

It didn’t matter to the Game Commission officer. Dixie had to be killed, he said. The animal might have rabies, he said. He refused to quarantine it. He refused to allow it to run back into the woods. He refused to allow the family to apply for a permit to keep the raccoon—the family didn’t realize they had to go through a paper jungle in order to do a humane act. At first, he even refused to take the animal away from the house to kill it. It was a final, desperate plea by the parents who didn’t want their four-year-old to see the murder.

After the officer fired two shots into Dixie—the first didn’t kill her—he then cited the family for unlawful acts concerning the taking of furbearers. Maybe, the Game Commission officer thought his badge allowed him to kill rather than protect animals.

The Game Commission officer’s inhumanity now allows every person to kill every animal on sight—just because it might have rabies. Maybe, it will attack us. Or, maybe, it’s just an annoyance.

Fear is a dominant trait in our society.

We buy .357 Magnums so we can blow away robbers—or in fear of neighbors who take short-cuts through our back yards at night. Or to murder people whose views are different from ours. Three recent high-profile cases revealed Whites killing Blacks because they might be dangerous.

We fear ideas that aren’t what we believe, so we continue to ban books and whine about the National Endowment for the Arts, forgetting that our nation was founded upon a libertarian principle that all views should be heard.

In a nation that seems to value appearance over intellect, a nation where there are no ugly anchors on TV, we are so afraid of not looking at least as well as anyone else that we spend billions for makeup to cover blemishes; we go to spas, gyms, and plastic surgeons to “tone up our flab” so no one scorns us for being fat. Augmentations to fill out. Liposuctions to reduce. Preparation H to shrink our wrinkles.

We are so afraid that someone else will get something more than we have, so instead of fighting to get better wages and working conditions, we attack unions and public school teachers.

We don’t hire the handicapped, the short, the tall, the fat, the skinny because they’re “different.” We fear and condemn gays, lesbians, and same-sex marriage, trying to justify our contempt and our fear as a voice from God. Some among us are anti-Semitic and racist, irrationally justifying their own pathetic existence.

While proclaiming our individuality, we try our best to look, act, and think like everyone else, ’lest someone label us “different” or, worse, “radical.” We are so afraid of not being “cool” that we allow advertising to dictate what we wear, what we eat and drink, and even what we drive.

We go to college because we’re afraid we won’t get a good job, and then spend 40 years on that job afraid to do anything different or creative, afraid to speak out for fear of displeasing someone who might discipline or fire us.

We are so afraid that someone else will get something more than we have, so instead of fighting to get better wages and working conditions, we attack unions and public school teachers.

We are afraid of the homeless because they look different, sometimes smell of booze, and sometimes even want to talk with us, to tell us about their lives and how they became homeless. We don’t want to hear that chatter. We have so many more important things to do—like go to our jobs so we can afford that nice mortgaged house and leased car.

We condemn those who receive public assistance, whether disabled, elderly, or just a single unwed mother who made a mistake. We fear that every dollar they receive is one dollar less that we can spend on our own necessities and luxuries.

We are afraid of children who escape Honduras, cross into Mexico, and then into the U.S. to seek asylum. They might be terrorists. They might take our welfare. They might want our jobs. For some on the far-right lunatic fringe, the solution is to kill those who cross our borders illegally. Why not just nuke Honduras and solve the problem entirely?

We fear and condemn Arabs and Muslims, and plan to destroy their countries, because some of them are terrorists, not acknowledging that every ethnicity and religion has its own terrorists. For some, the solution is to launch pre-emptive strikes against—well, everything—just because something might happen.

That which we don’t understand—or want to understand—we attack, leaving us condemned to an isolation of ignorance.

Those who believe they are Christians often ask, “What would Jesus do?”

Would Jesus want us to buy guns to kill people and animals? Would Jesus want us to ban books and ideas we don’t agree with? Would Jesus want us to concentrate upon appearance? Would Jesus want us to believe the half-truths of politics and corporate advertising? Would Jesus condone racism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, ageism, and homophobia? Would Jesus want us to condemn immigrants, children who are seeking asylum, and those who are the weakest and poorest of our society.

Would Jesus want us to condemn those who live on communes or join unions? Would Jesus deliberately kill a mother bear and her cubs who didn’t threaten anyone? Would Jesus kill a baby raccoon who posed no threat? Would Jesus want us to live a life of fear?

The answer is obvious.

Walter Brasch
Wanderings

The TRUTH will set you FREE.