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Saudi energy conference loses Shell, Exxon, BP execs amid Yemeni strikes

Several top energy executives were dropped from the schedule of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh on 12 October, as the kingdom insists on holding the conference despite the threat to the capital posed by the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF). 

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copium “To everyone who traveled to Riyadh, thank you,” said Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman while making the opening comments at the WPC Energy Congress. “You know this ​country is safe and that we hold your protection at whole heart … Our gathering here ⁠does not mean the risk is gone,” he said.

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Unfortunately, due to travel ⁠disruption, we are unable to be there in person. We greatly value our long-standing partnerships across the region,” said a BP spokesperson cited by Reuters. The spokesperson added that the firm made “every ​effort to participate.” Shell declined to comment, and TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, and Chevron did not ​immediately respond

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    White Stork was a Nazi Propaganda program aimed at gaining support from The Boers in South Africa.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2024/12/24/in-1942-the-nazi-stork-leg-propaganda-plan-failed-before-it-started-a-biologist-explains-why/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_stork#In_culture

    In 1942, Heinrich Himmler sought to use storks to carry Nazi propaganda leaflets so as to win support from the Boers in South Africa. The idea for this "Storchbein-Propaganda" plan was a secret that was transmitted by Walter Schellenberg to be examined by the German ornithologist Ernst Schüz at the Rossiten bird observatory, who pointed out that the probability of finding marked storks in Africa was less than one percent, requiring 1000 birds to transmit 10 leaflets successfully. The plan was then dropped.

    In Nazi educational propaganda it was also referenced storks stay with storks

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