End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents  Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
 
The impoverished nation of The Gambia, is currently witnessing untold human rights, social and political crisis. Faced […]

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News in The Observer, May 11 2008, that Royal Dutch Shell is to pay £3m ($6 billion) to directors simply to stay on the board for three years will be met with strong criticism not only by the investor community but also by one of Shell’s forgotten set of stakeholders - their Pensioners in the […]

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It appears that Tom Fragala and the MyTruston team have raked in (yet) another award. This time from the Pacific Coast Business Times as one of the hot start-up companies coming from California’s Central Coast.
Tom Fragala, Truston’s CEO wrote on his blog, “This recognition comes on the heels of being named a 2008 Hot Company […]

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Revolution Cleaners of Denver, Co are being featured on this weeks episode of Big Ideas For A Small Planet on the Sundance Channel. The Dry Cleaning industry is not one that I had ever considered as being eco friendly; the use of chemicals cannot possibly be good for the environment.
Revolution’s solution is to use liquid […]

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Contenders for the tarnished Royal Dutch Shell crown
By John Donovan
The Financial Times recently published an article revealing Shell’s intention to make “one-off retention payments to three Shell executive directors”, Malcolm Brinded, Peter Voser and Linda Cook; the three candidates vying to succeed Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer when he retires in June next year.
Financial […]

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Part Two of this on going series will focus on the reasons why the Ebay Feedback system is treating sellers and buyers unfairly. However, most recent Ebay policy changes with regard to eliminating the capability for a seller to defend his or her own terms and conditions makes it more unfair for the seller. In […]

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Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke.
For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry […]

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Attention Conspiracy theorists.
They caught two of the ships that caused part of that Middle East Cable outage, and it turns out it was not done by the CIA, or Mossad, or Iran, or Alqaeda.
Just some careless sailors.
There were four cable cuts at the time; this story refers to the FLAG cable between Oman and the […]

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Sruwaddacon Bay, Ireland
By John Donovan
Hostility by the local population to the Shell Corrib Gas Project in Ireland continues. As the operators of a well known website – www.royaldutchshellplc.com -focussed on the global activities of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, we recently received an eloquent appeal for help. The content of the email is self-explanatory.
THE EMAIL

Dear […]

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By John Donovan
Introduction: The article below was supplied to Royal Dutch Shell Plc on 10 April 2008 on the basis that before publication we would delete anything stated by Shell as being categorically untrue. The text of the actual email sent is printed at the foot of the article. Because he is named in the […]

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Since May 2007, Absolut Vodka has been running an ongoing ad campaign created by TBWA/Chiat/Day/New York, “In an Absolut World,” described by The New York Times as:
[A] fanciful, even surreal, place where common sense prevails and just deserts are always on the menu.
On Planet Absolut, for instance, men can get pregnant, the Curse of the […]

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David comes into the board room and tells Nikki he is so lucky to have her. He asks her how come they can’t just do it right now. She says do what. He says set a wedding date right now. She tells him soon. He doesn’t want to hear that. She says not til he […]

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By John Donovan
In December 2005 we published an article containing the following paragraph:
It appears that extremely powerful forces are at work and one wonders where the intrigue will lead in relation to the Corrib pipeline. Will “THE GREAT CORRIB GAS CONTROVERSY” turn into something even bigger – a full blown scandal?
http://www.shellnews.net/week49/shellnewscorrib14dec2005.htm
We made the comment in […]

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European carbon traders are eagerly awaiting benchmark numbers on European greenhouse gas emissions during 2007. European countries ought to have submitted the data in a central system yesterday but many failed to meet the deadline.

That is why the Brussels authorities in charge of the central system have not yet released the information on the Community […]

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The NYTimes has a nice “summary” article on the heparin scare today.
They do a nice job, but they seem to assume that the episode is an accident, so the article it points to the FDA for failing to regulate the drug manufacturing process.
Dr. Roger L. Williams, chief executive of the United States Pharmacopeia, which […]

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An organic type solar energy which will be introduced in consumer products after the Summer is expected to speed up implementation of solar energy in every day products. The photoelectrochemical is applied in dye-sensitized cells and the technology is cheap in its application. Konarka, a Lowell, MS, based company pioneering the technology, plans to use […]

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People have died, and the case, which started out as an accident inquiry, and then morphed into a industrial error, has now become a homicide investigation.
And the culprit is corporate corruption, and a culture of corruption that extends into the highest level of government.
But I”m getting ahead of my story.
The story started last November, when […]

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By John Donovan
17 March 2008
Shell has today announced that it is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for potential violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and has also instigated an internal investigation.
Shell has also confirmed that it is cooperating with active investigations being carried out by the US Department of Justice […]

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Article by John Donovan
While the headline might at first glance appear to be an outrageous claim, it happens to be supported with independent verifiable evidence from reputable sources.
The website warrior in question is my father Alfred Donovan, who is in his 90’s. The website is royaldutchshellplc.com recently described by Carl Mortished, World Business Editor of […]

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Dr Joseph Ackermann
By John Donovan
13 March 2008
The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc has today announced its intention to propose to the 2008 Annual General Meeting that Dr. Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank AG, be elected a non-executive director of the Company with effect from […]

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BILL CAMPBELL, FORMER GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL
By John Donovan
Below is the full content – every word – of a statement former Shell Group Auditor Bill Campbell has sent to Shell, the HSE, the news media and other interested parties. This article was first published to coincide with a related report broadcast on TV Channel […]

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Truston — who provides a privacy and user friendly means to protect a person from identity theft — has announced a partnership with Identity Force.
Truston allows a person to protect themselves without giving up any of the personal information that is normally used by identity thieves to commit a wide assortment of crimes. It also […]

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Lifelock — one of the companies that offers identity theft protection at a cost — is being taken on by one of the big three credit bureaus. Last week, Experian issued a law suit seeking damages for their costs associated with placing and replacing credit alerts.
Before continuing on, it needs to be noted, as it […]

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Despite a lot of publicity that eBay is going after fraud, the bottom line is that the buyer better BEWARE when they purchase something on eBay, or for that matter, any digital auction site.
This morning, I read a story from Wales, where a person just got caught selling laptops that didn’t exist.
From the Evening Leader:
Christopher […]

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While most people are aware of the privacy problems in the Patriot Act, few outside the geek world seem worried about a major danger to people’s privacy in non governmental areas.
An article on Webware pointed out that Google is planning to work with the Cleveland Clinic to put the patient’s medical records on line.
Between 1,500 […]

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Equinox Fitness Club’s new print advertising campaign depicts four nuns - wearing habits and rosary beads around their necks - sketching the figure of a nude man. Actually two of the nuns are sketching, the other two are gawking. One of the nuns, who is seated, has her skirt hiked high enough up her thigh […]

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For 30 days, Hub Pages abnd Mashup/Digg offer a 300 word ormore writing contest on a topic to be divulged daly through March 14. This contest for Americans, because of complex international laws, is open to US participants. The grand prize is a package of technology equipment worth $5,000.
For each day’s topic, anyone can write an easy-to-produce Hub of […]

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Cuts in Jobs Announced at the New York Times
Cutbacks in News Bureaus announced by NBC
Cuts in Jobs at Washington Post, LA Times and Chicago Tribune
Cutback in Everything MSM–except Left Wing Rhetoric Masquerading as News 
When You’re Selling what No One is Buying 
The big story of the Mainstream Media in the last week is cuts.
Cuts in jobs, […]

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By John Donovan
Shell shareholders and employees could be forgiven for being under the impression that Jeroen van der Veer, the Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell Plc has no further personal involvement in the repercussions from the reserves fraud. 
If so, they will be surprised to learn that lawyers acting for Shell, van der Veer, […]

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The paper sector is an obvious a target for green activism, so this weekend’s breaking news that office supplies retailer Staples severed all ties with its Singaporean paper supplier because of environmental concerns shouldn’t be that surprising. But the events that led to Staples’ move are an eye opener; a Wall Street Street Journal reporter […]

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