Boycott Shell Oil for deal with Iran!
Shell Oil has just announced a deal with Iran, despite pressure from President Bush to forgo said deal. Keep in mind Shell has every right to do business with whomever they want, and that Shell is not an American company. So while Iran is a likely a direct threat to the US, it not a likely a direct threat to either England or Holland. However, Shell does do business in the US, and that makes their actions accountable to the us. Given that there was talk, and action (maybe) around a boycott of Venezuelan gas company Citgo, why no call for a boycott of Shell? While Chavez called W a "devil" (is that better or worse that Democrat Party?), Iran is both a much bigger future threat, and a very real current one given their support for those in Iraq who are killing US soldiers.
Soooo, I'm officially calling for a boycott of Shell Oil. Buy BP, they've made the commitment to not invest in Iran (no word on whether they'll divest, and the decision may be because they don't have anything going anyway - but enough cynicism), or better yet buy Sinclair which imports from Canada, and Sunoco which import from Canada, Nigeria and Angola (all figures from 2005, for more info on which oil companies import from where click here).
And yes I know Shell has already faced a boycott due to its facilities in Angola and Nigeria (two places on the H-Blogs "approved" list). Look, I'm not a big fan of this situation, but since Iran may, at some point, have the ability to nuke the US, and is currently killing US soldiers I'm OK with the trade. Clearly the best place to buy gas is Sinclair, plus they have that neat little dinosaur logo.
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Speaking of boycotts, Exxon Mobil posted on Thursday the largest annual profit ever by a U.S. company--$39.5 billion.
My only beef with that number is that they and the rest of the oil industry still get massive tax breaks and subsidies. If ever an industry could be weaned from the teat of corporate welfare its Exxon and the gang.
okay i just want to say this I agree with this boycott against shell because they are hurting our own solider in iran but how many of the us people are you going to hurt in the us? If you are asking what do i mean by this then read more, what about the independent stores they dont make money on gas they only make money on the inside what can they do? how do they feed their families if this boycott goes on and then what they have to apply for welfare and then are you gpoing to boycott against that. Yeah i dont like iran much now eaither but we need to also think of our own people who sent our soldiers over there, one of our own and who is keeping them there one of our own. so tell me if we boycott against shell how can we help our independent shells? why do we make our own people again suffer?
Please sign petition to Shell to stop doing business with terrorist regime of Iran!
http://www.bankruptterror.org/projects/petition_shell.php
If you have a website, please feel free to post the petition.
From Indymedia portal:
http://piemonte.indymedia.org/article/10730
SHELL & embargo: here's how the Dutch foraging Iran.
Hundreds of U.S. companies have sold sensitive technology and know-how to the Iranians but also famous European multinationals. As Royal Duch Shell.
Chemicals, weapons, technologies, software, spares for the war industry, nuclear and oil. Always arrives in Iran for everything. And by all. Especially from Shell. Which is also fun to make fun of the United States.
For bringing the American authorities and ask for an international letter rogatory against society Irasco (October 2009) it took an official complaint to the Italian government authorities. Before all sleep more or less peacefully.
One thing is the fiction film and the reconstruction of so many Americans telefim and another thing is to put in writing - on paper - the shady dealings of Iran as it did in its report a 007 secret service. Altana Pietro, considered an agent of military intelligence writes bluntly in a confidential letter to General Nicolò Pollari (Sismi), and the general Mario Mori (Sisde), and to the Italian government authorities on September 15, 2004:
"For many years I work for the SISMI (Military Intelligence) full time and occasionally for SISDE (civilian secret service) as a consultant in my areas of responsibility such as Iranian society ... ... I was stopped by the Police Station Genoa Pontedecimo ... and was seized abundant material relating to the Iranian society that are the focus of our investigations ... the material in question concerns the Iranian trading companies (all controlled directly by the Iranian Government) which the companies: IRASCO, NISCO, IRITEC, IRISA, IRITAL, IRAN AIR, TEEN TRANSPORT, and many others, all companies that have dealings with Iranian intelligence services and from our investigations that have encouraged the export - from Genoa to Iran - high-tech "Made in USA (prohibited by the embargo) and also technology military and nuclear technologies. A lot of this documentation was filed in confidential files in my computer (all impounded) … and are now being studied by investigators ... I trusted my lawyers have also feared the possibility that the judges (pm Anna Canepa e GIP Todella) may question the Iranian society for a review of documentation found in my possession. In this regard I would point out - the illustrious President of the Italian Republic - the potential risk (also true) that the Iranian society (and therefore also inductively the Iranian government) can become aware of our investigations carried out in recent years on their behalf. With all the serious and irreparable consequences for the diplomatic implications of our nation".
http://piemonte.indymedia.org/attachments/nov2009/articolo_stampa_altana_pietro_2.pdf
http://piemonte.indymedia.org/attachments/sep2010/altana_pietro_sismi_roppo_articoli_secolo_xix_corsera.pdf
http://piemonte.indymedia.org/attachments/dec2008/rapporto_sismi_sisde.pdf
6 years after the complaint appears to have remained as before. ran continues to do a roaring trade with the West in every field. William Hague, British Foreign Secretary (fatal coincidence that the same name of the city which houses the headquarters of Shell in the Netherlands) recently reaffirmed that the UK does not encourage trade and investment with Iran because of "serious concerns about the nature of Iran's nuclear program". This is the paradox. The Iranians continue to do great business, especially with European multinationals. As the oil giant Shell.
Feel (or read) what he writes Michiel Brandjes, General Counsel Corporate of Royal Duch Shell Plc, to the ambassador Mark D. Wallace (United Against Nuclear Iran) when the latter - given the close relationships Shell-Iran - threatened action at the SEC, FSA, il New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange: “we have not yet taken a decision as to whether to proceed with the persian NLG Project”.
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