Allseas backs down on Nazi ship name

Allseas backs down on Nazi ship name

Feb 6th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Associated Press has confirmed that after protests, the Allseas a Dutch-Swiss maritime engineering company said Friday it will change the name of a giant ship that had been christened after a convicted Nazi.

Allseas Group said that due to the “widespread reactions” Edward Heerema has announced that the name of the vessel will be changed.

“It has never been the intention to offend anyone,” the company said in a statement.

Earlier Friday, the company said it had no plans to change the name. The new name was not immediately announced.

“Wonderful, wonderful news. You’ve made my day,” Esther Voet of Dutch Jewish group CIDI said when she was told of the name change.

CIDI supported my petition to rename the ship.

I am pleased Mr Edward Heerema (above right) has decided to do so. All due praise to him for changing his mind when legally he did not need to do so. 

Must be a huge relief at  Royal Dutch Shell and Lloyds Register.

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Unconfirmed reports that Allseas is abandoning Nazi ship name: The Pieter Schelte

Unconfirmed reports that Allseas is abandoning Nazi ship name: The Pieter Schelte

Feb 6th, 2015

by John Donovan. 

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In the last few minutes Dutch investigative journalist Ton Biesemaat has advised me that he has heard from two sources that Allseas is dropping the Nazi name of its giant new ship, which has generated so much offence on an international basis. We await confirmation from Allseas or Shell as to whether this information is correct. 

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Nazi named ship a bloodstain on the name of Shell

Nazi named ship a bloodstain on the name of Shell

Feb 5th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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The Financial Times has this evening published an article by Mark Odell under the headline:

“Ship to clear North Sea rigs named after Dutch SS man”

It reports:

“Royal Dutch Shell is facing a storm of criticism after deciding to proceed with plans to bring a ship named after a Nazi war criminal into UK waters to decommission the Brent oilfield, having failed to get the owner to change the name.”

It says Shell has filed plans with the UK government to decommission the Brent Delta oil platform.

Some main points from their article:

• The Nazi name has ignited outrage in the Jewish community.
• Pieter Schelte Heerema worked alongside the infamous Josef Mengele in the elite 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking in the Waffen-SS, a unit linked to war crimes. 
• Pieter Schelte later dispatched slave labour to the eastern front.
• He was found guilty of war crimes.
• His claim to have renounced the Nazis and join the resistance has been discredited. 
• Claims made by Allseas as to the reason that Pieter Schelte joined the Waffen-SS have also been discredited. 
• Shell says it supported a campaign to change the name of the ship but Edward Heerema refused to do so.
• The matter has been discussed by senior Shell management. I assume that includes Ben van Beurden?
• The British government says the Nazi name is an issue to be resolved by Allseas and Shell.

Esther Voet, speaking for the Dutch Centre for Information and Documentation on Israel says:

 “This is a bloodstain on the name of Royal Dutch Shell…”

The Amsterdam-based Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies has evidence of a speech made by Pieter Schelte Heerema when he stated:

“Compared to the German race, the Jewish race is a parasite and for that reason the Jewish question must be resolved in every country.”

FT ARTICLE 

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PURE BS: SHELL THE MOST RIGOROUSLY POLICED BRAND IN THE WORLD

PURE BS: SHELL THE MOST RIGOROUSLY POLICED BRAND IN THE WORLD

Feb 5th, 2015 

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Just read the article by Tom Banks published today by Design Week under the headline:

“Shell lifts the lid on new digital strategy”

Extracts

Radley Yeldar  has redesigned Shell’s website, which will act as a hub for all corporate and consumer activity.

Radley Yeldar digital director Richard Coope says this extended to 74 different websites, in the region of 68 social networks and accounts and 18 mobile apps. In total they found were 27,000 pages of content.

His team has worked with the Shell brand and visual identity teams to make Shell’s branding “more in tune with a digital environment”. It is, he says, “the most rigorously policed and well understood brand in the world.”

Extracts End

We have more than 27,000 webpages relating to Shell on this single website.

How could anyone look at this website and seriously claim Shell rigorously polices its brand? That is a delusion. Look around.

This year will mark our tenth anniversary since Shell attempted to seize the royaldutchshellplc.com domain name, but in utter humiliation, lost the case and decided against even trying to appeal the unanimous verdict rejecting their claim.

Six Royal Dutch Shell companies collectively sued a Shell employee, Production Geologist, Dr John Huong, for defamation over damaging information about Shell published here. They threatened to have him imprisoned for contempt of court after he continued to supply information we published. Eventually Shell abandoned the litigation, reluctantly leaving us free to continue publishing articles as we alone deem fit.

As is evident from the Shell related graphics displayed, Shell has given up defending its brand and reputation as far as this website is concerned. That is plain for all to see.

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SEC continuing to scrutinise Shell’s claimed oil reserves

SEC continuing to scrutinise Shell’s claimed oil reserves

Feb 5th, 2015 

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A letter emailed to Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chief Executive Officer, Ben van Beurden, on 23 Oct 2014, from the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, asked why Shell had omitted to supply in a Form 20-F filing, figures for Shell’s share of Kashagan proved undeveloped reserves.

Shell’s partners in the much troubled Kashagan oil field consortium – years behind schedule and billions over budget – include Eni, KazMunayGas, Total, ExxonMobil, China National Petroleum Corporation and Inpex. The project is known in the oil industry as “Cash All Gone”.

It is plain from the overall content of the correspondence that the SEC is keeping a very close watch on Shell’s claimed reserves following the huge reserves scandal in 2004. Shell had tried to fool the markets by overstating its reserves and paid the penalty in massive fines imposed by the SEC and the UK Financial Services Authority. Add to that the dramatic resignations of several main RDS executive directors, including the Group Chairman, Sir Philip Watts, and class action litigation that went on for several years.

There is a link since Ben van Beurden was, at the time of the great scandal, personal assistant to Sir Philip. Simon Henry, the current RDS Chief Financial Officer, was also involved, but escaped retribution.

Shell did respond to the SEC letter, but asked the SEC to treat the information supplied as being confidential.

CORRESPONDENCE

SHELL LETTER 30 Sept 2014

SEC LETTER OCT 2015

Shell Letter 10 Nov 2014

SEC LETTER 1 DEC 2014

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American Sniper, Why So Popular?

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WEDNESDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2015 American Sniper: Why So Popular? Lila Garrett: Not only is this NOT an anti-war picture, it makes anyone who doesn't own an AK .338 Lapua Magnum-chambered McMillan TAC-338 sniper rifle, feel like a sissy. READ MORE

American Sniper, Why So Popular?

BY LILA GARRETT

Never see a horror film just before you go to sleep. I’m talking about AMERICAN SNIPER, and for people who define war as a capital crime that’s what it was….a horror film. Mass murder presented as heroism. 

Navy Seal, Chris Kyle who killed 160 Iraqis of all ages…children, grandparents, whoever appeared within range….is presented as a great American hero. His passive-aggressive insanity is portrayed by Bradley Cooper as “depth, inner conflict, a passion for his country.” And since Cooper is a good actor, and a great kisser, it makes you want to make-out with him instead of what you should be doing…..running a mile in the opposite direction.

Not only is this NOT an anti-war picture, it makes anyone who doesn’t own an AK .338 Lapua Magnum-chambered McMillan TAC-338 sniper rifle, feel like a sissy. This is one dangerous film. But what do we expect from Clint Eastwood, master of nastiness? He’s a right wing zealot who happens to know how to put together a film and make it look even-handed. A little something for everybody sells tickets, and you just have to look at the response to AMERICAN SNIPER to know how expert he is at that. If he’d just stick to talking to empty chairs we’d all be better off. At the end Kyle is killed by a “deranged” veteran, and not a moment too soon.

A word of advice. Don’t see it.

 The mystery is, why is it #1 at the box office. What is it about unbridled anger that so attracts Americans? Is it a sign of our own frustration which we are unable to articulate? Who are we really angry at? Is it the people we elect to represent us who instead represent the rich and powerful?

When you remember actively campaigning for candidates who share your convictions, when you believed their promises ….. and then they’re elected and you never hear about that agenda again, does it gall you?

 You spend years watching them roll over, kissing up to the other side, withdrawing the social safety net that our taxes pay for, increasing the defense budget so you can enable the Chris Kyles of the world to kill harder and faster, developing drones to make killing more efficient and widespread. And with masses of drones and hundreds of bombing missions a week, we’re reaching the point where a single sniper will become nostalgia. That sniper’s photo will end up in a drawer next to Grandma’s cameo. We’ll soon be saying ah the good old days when we did our killing by hand. It was so much neater then.

Interesting how easily the United States bounces from war to war, keeping the number of casualties unreported. Those casualties are now apparently regarded as top secret. Are our journalists forbidden from reporting them? Are they even allowed on the ground? The silence on the extent of the dead and wounded is deafening. Recently we’ve heard the number 6000 in collateral damage. But that number came and went….fast…without any details.

In his STATE OF THE UNION address our President certainly didn’t mention that. And while he bragged about the improving economy, he didn’t mention where all the new jobs are coming from? The defense buildup perhaps? The tremendous growth spurt of drones in our country? Here we are dropping these little electronic killers with awesome regularity on Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Pakistan,Yemen, Afghanistan…wherever the spirit moves us… and not one word was said in his once a year major speech to the nation. Instead he filled it with his new bag of goodies. Free community colleges, raising the minimum wage, saving Social Security and Medicare, giving immigrants a fair shake, creating a Washington that gets out of the people’s way instead of blocking them. All worthy goals.

Yes, the first half of his speech was the feel good hour. Interesting to watch John Boehner, who for some strange reason is permitted to sit behind the President during his star moment. Like a Greek chorus, he and the Vice President commented with smirks and/or smiles on every word being said.

For Boehner the first half of the speech was the all smirk section. That was the Roosevelt-esque social programs half. But he got to his feet and applauded when the President talked about fighting Isis. He got up even faster and applauded again when Obama made a pitch for upping the ante in the war.

Apparently they both still think we can kill our way out of the world’s rise of terrorist gangs. No matter that the more troops and hardware we send in, the more these rebel bands multiply. Richard Engel MSNBC war correspondent based in Turkey, said we have been killing a thousand members of Isis a month. But they are constantly replaced by 1500.

The more bombing  drone missions we send into Syria and Iraq, the more young people flood into these rebel groups. They have nothing to lose including their own lives, which they feel they’ll lose anyway if they don’t fight back. Like Chris Kyle, all they can see is a world that is hostile to them…and they are not going to let that world win.

John Boehner looked worried during Obama’s speech. He wants to rev up our military action against Iran and obviously he wasn’t satisfied by the Republican response given by Joni Ernst, the simple minded Senator from Iowa.

So now, unilaterally, Boehner has invited Netanyahu in February to speak before the Congress in exactly the same star spot as our peerless leader. What is he thinking? That Netanyahu should fill Obama’s shoes as our leader? How crazy can it get? How lawless? Since when does a foreign leader come in to replace our democratically elected President. Warts and all…we did elect him. Twice as he pointed out. So what is going on here?

And if we can’t kill our way out of the growth of these terrorist groups, how do we get rid of them?

Would that Chris Kyle were still around to advise us.

Since he’s not, let’s settle for Dennis Kucinch. Luckily he’s with us now…….

Lila Garrett

Lila Garrett is the host of “Connect the Dots” which airs on KPFK.
To access her most recent shows, click here. http://archive.kpfk.org/index.php?shokey=ctd

To hear her most recent show click this link: http://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_150202_070004ctd.MP3

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