>>7639708 PB

>Marjorie Merriweather Post purchased the 36,000 Spanish tiles from Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, who had assembled the collection in the 1880's.

Only took 3 seconds to dig up some really filthy dirt on the German Havemeyer family, Domino sugar billionaires. Are you imagining terrifying Caribbean sugar cane plantations and a whole bunch of slaves yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havemeyer_family

Related by marriage to Roosevelts and Vanderbilts. BIG "old New York" family.

GREAT source on this family, which was a giant dysfunctional mess of alcoholics, ruthless corruption, broken marriages, and tragedy. Juicy reading:

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/sugars-sordid-story-in-williamsburg/

"The Domino sugar refinery in Williamsburg may be an important relic of 19th-century industrial architecture, but a far better reason for preserving it is the part it has played in the history of Brooklyn and of America.

To know the broader story of this building and of the people who worked in it is to consider questions such as who profited from American slavery, how north Brooklynites survived the Great Depression, why Coca-Cola is sweetened with corn syrup today, where the Metropolitan Museum got all those Impressionist paintings — even how tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans came to live in Williamsburg….

An archetypal 19th-century robber baron, H. O. Havemeyer did not let anyone or anything get in his way. If the government prevented him from creating a monopoly on sugar, then he bought a few politicians. Bourgeois morality was no obstacle when in 1883 he grew tired of his wife, Mary Elder, and decided to marry her much younger niece Louisine.

The crowning achievement of H. O. Havemeyer’s life, decades in the making, was the Sugar Trust, a legal monopoly that, in the words of a contemporary, “snaked like a gigantic octopus from the Caribbean to Brooklyn across the United States to the Phillipines.” The Sugar Trust allowed one man to set sugar prices and workers’ wages across an immense industry. In a time when cane sugar was the sole sweetener for baked goods, soft drinks, tea and coffee, the Sugar Trust was practically a license to print money."

So much soulless, cancerous behavior from the ultra rich. Too much money is like a curse, destroying one family after another.

>>7639959

Holy shit, look at the history of the woman who collected those 36,000 tiles at Mar a Lago:

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/sugar-storys-grand-finale/

"The most ruthless Havemeyer male of them all was the “Sugar King,” H.O. Havemeyer, who from his East River waterfront throne ruled a vast empire that exploited workers from the Caribbean to Asia; inflated sugar prices across the U.S.; and wielded enough political influence to instigate the Spanish-American War.

The family had another side — a patrician, philanthropic, politically progressive side. A prime exemplar of these qualities was Louisine Elder Havemeyer, also known as Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer.

The union of H.O. and Louisine took place in the context of an inbred family situation typical of the American WASP elite. The Elders and the Havemeyers were New York sugar families that performed a complicated merger both at the altar and in the boardroom. From age 15, H.O. was raised by Louisine’s parents and later married Louisine’s aunt. H.O.’s older sister married Louisine’s uncle. Finally, in 1883 H.O. divorced his first wife and married her much younger niece, Louisine.

Louisine and H.O. complimented each other. Running what at the time was a vast legal monopoly — the American Sugar Refining Company — H.O. perfected the art of making boatloads of money. Louisine perfected the art of spending it….

H.O. is long gone, but his innovations are still with us, even if they have not always had the effect intended by their inventor. Decades of price supports, which have kept the price of sugar in the United States as high as four or five times the international price, eventually led many soft drink and candy makers to switch from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener that many health experts blame for today’s American epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Price supports have also devastated the economies of sugar-growing regions such as the Caribbean. This has had two further effects: to cause social and political disruption that has necessitated frequent visits by the U.S. military; and to provoke mass immigration, especially by Puerto Ricans, who as American citizens have found it easy to come to New York to find jobs to replace those lost by the willful destruction of the Caribbean sugar industry.

The irony of this is particularly stark in Williamsburg. Tens of thousands of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have outstayed H.O. Havemeyer’s mighty Domino sugar refinery, yet are no longer needed now that raw sugar imports have dwindled. Indeed, the fabled factory itself will soon be converted to thousands of apartments, mostly luxury."

"The story of Louisine Havemeyer ends with a staggering act of philanthropy and humility. When she died at 73 in 1929, she left more than 1,000 paintings and sculptures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Havemeyer collection remains the biggest single part of the Met."

So, most of the Met's collection is just stuff the Havemeyers hoarded up in Europe and brought to America. The Italian government had to block them from buying Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", even.

Absolutely disgusting.

>>7640010

Ha! Here's idiot Stacy Abrams with her San Francisco/Stanford handler, Steve Phillips. You remember Phillips: he's married to the goblin/daughter heiress of the Sandler fortune, and now that her parents are dead, they're spending that sweet money on lefty politics.

I do keep wondering what our governor, his new Senate appointee Kelly Loeffler (who will assume retiring Sen. Johnny Isakson) talked about when they two of them were summoned to the White House by POTUS. My theory is that POTUS told them he already has plans for the peerless Doug Collins in some position which must be higher than a U.S. Senator. We'll have to wait and see. Georgian here, and our politics are in kind of a transition period here. Pleased to hear about this court decision about the voter rolls.

>>7640278

Will be interesting to hear Charles Ortel's take on all this on Sunday afternoon.

He's had the Clintons by the short hairs for their massive charity fraud for several years. So many crimes… tax fraud, an ocean of RICO crimes, you name it, gaaaah.

RICO would make for tasty court TV viewing, because practically anything can be introduced as evidence. Charity fraud is huge because of the jail sentencing and asset seizures available to prosecutors.

This could get so, so good. Ortel estimated the Clinton fraud dollar total as over $100 billion the first time I ever heard him, talking to John B. Wells one night. Blew my mind. He also achieves the major miracle of translating complex financial ideas into plain English a 10th grader can easily grasp. Witty, too.

>>7640387

When it happens, if it happens, it almost has to be a massive waterfall of information.

It's almost an election year and the calendar pages are turning fast.

>>7640398

Next live podcast will be Sunday afternoon on YT

I download & listen in the car & at night before going to sleep, average duration is about 2 hours

>>7640406

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