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History of America’s One Percent – Episode #31
In this podcast series we dive into the long and shadowy history of America’s ruling elite through the works of authors who were either silenced, suppressed, or forgotten, to discover the origins of the 1% and from where their power and wealth was, and still is, extracted. Each recording will be approx. 1 hour in length to allow for easy consumption of the material. The narrator will only interrupt the reading to provide insight, spell names, read informative footnotes, or provide definitions for archaic words.
In this episode – Continued reading of History of Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers. Includes Part III, Chapter VIII: Further Aspects of the Vanderbilt Fortune. The Commodores Methods Carried On By the Third Generation. An American Era: Frauds Below $50 Million Barely Worth Mentioning. The Vanderbilt’s Confiscate a 17 Acre Chunk of New York City. Compliant Government Officials Pass Law to Gift The Area to the Vanderbilt’s For Their Private Use. They Sign An Agreement to Re-Open the Streets to the Public Whenever The City Requires. The Agreement Gets “Misplaced,” Disappears for Twenty Years. They Pay No Taxes on the Appropriated Land. Other “Small” Frauds Considered: Public Fleeced $1.2 Million for New York Central Upgrades. The Railroad Charges What it Pleases For Work and Materials, City Forced to Pay. Vanderbilts Pose as “Reformers.” Methods of Acquiring the Lake Shore, and Boston and Albany Railroads. The Government An Engine for Tyranny. Machine Guns for the Overworked. Ten Millions for A Dukedom. Vanderbilt Marriages to European Titled Nobility Prove a Drain On Their Huge Fortune.
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Not Dead
Sorry for the extended absence. Thanks for the emails. Life has required my attention. The podcast will resume. There are 13 episodes sitting on my drive waiting for post-production. Post takes approximately 2 hours per hour of audio. Holidays will continue to hold up process. Maybe Santa will leave a gift here. Otherwise see you next year.
History of America’s One Percent – Episode #30
In this podcast series we dive into the long and shadowy history of America’s ruling elite through the works of authors who were either silenced, suppressed, or forgotten, to discover the origins of the 1% and from where their power and wealth was, and still is, extracted. Each recording will be approx. 1 hour in length to allow for easy consumption of the material. The narrator will only interrupt the reading to provide insight, spell names, read informative footnotes, or provide definitions for archaic words.
In this episode – Continued reading of History of Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers. Includes Part III, Chapter VII: The Vanderbilt Fortune in Later Generations, continued. The Labor Movement Collapses After 1887. Labor Party Leaders Bribed With Offices In Democratic and Republican Administrations. Labor Reduced to Begging Politicians For Scraps of Legislation. War Resumes Between the Middle Class and the Great Magnates. The Middle Class Passes Anti-Trust Laws in 23 States By 1890. Each Trust Busted Reorganizes Deeper In the Technicalities of the Law. The Great Magnates Install Their Agents On the Benches and as Attorneys General. The Vanderbilt’s Acquire the “Big Four.” Some Circumstances Behind the Panic of 1893. Gathering In Anthracite Coal Mines In Pennsylvania. Squeezing Out the Independent Operators. Abuses of the Mine Workers. The Company Store. The Grand Prize: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Owned One-Half of Coal Supply in Pennsylvania. President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Arthur McLeod’s Wreckless Ambition. Vanderbilt and Morgan Join Forces To Crush McLeod. Splitting the Spoils of War. Treatment of the Mine Workers Under the New Owners. Gathering in the Bituminous Coal Mines Also. Untold Profits From The Coal Mines.
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History of America’s One Percent – Episode #29
In this podcast series we dive into the long and shadowy history of America’s ruling elite through the works of authors who were either silenced, suppressed, or forgotten, to discover the origins of the 1% and from where their power and wealth was, and still is, extracted. Each recording will be approx. 1 hour in length to allow for easy consumption of the material. The narrator will only interrupt the reading to provide insight, spell names, read informative footnotes, or provide definitions for archaic words.
In this episode – Continued reading of History of Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers. Includes Part III, Chapter VII: The Vanderbilt Fortune in Later Generations. The Heirs Build Huge Mansions. A Dynasty Secured in 30 Years. The Great Labor Movement of 1886. The Agitation for an 8-Hour Work Day. Potential Political Ramifications of the Labor Movement Surface. The Middle Class and the 1% Join Ranks to Strangle the Labor Movement. The Strike at the McCormick Factory in Chicago. Deployment of Pinkerton Detectives and Employment of “Scabs.” Police and News Reporters Create a Crisis at the Factory. Police Fire Into Crowds of Men, Women, and Children. Radicals In Chicago. The Haymarket Incident. Police Attack Peaceful Protesters, Again. Bombing of Police Allows Massive Crackdown. Labor Leaders Rushed to Trial. Four American’s Hung With No Evidence of Guilt. Other Labor Leaders Pardoned 7 Years Later. Political Action in New York City. The True Nature of Political Parties. Theodore Roosevelt Makes a Cameo. An Election Stolen Through Fraud: Repeat Voters and Tampering With Results.
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History of America’s One Percent – Episode #28
In this podcast series we dive into the long and shadowy history of America’s ruling elite through the works of authors who were either silenced, suppressed, or forgotten, to discover the origins of the 1% and from where their power and wealth was, and still is, extracted. Each recording will be approx. 1 hour in length to allow for easy consumption of the material. The narrator will only interrupt the reading to provide insight, spell names, read informative footnotes, or provide definitions for archaic words.
In this episode – Continued reading of History of Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers. Includes Part III, Chapter VI: The Entailing of the Vanderbilt Fortune, continued. Bankrupting the West Shore Railroad. William Vanderbilt Intrudes on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Territory. He Builds the Competing South Pennsylvania Railroad Line. Looting Before the Railway is Completed: $30 Million in Securities Fraud Through His Railroad Construction Company. Vanderbilt’s Secret “Gentleman’s Agreement” with the Reading Railroad. Pennsylvania Railroad Proves too Powerful. J.P. Morgan Steps in to Dump the South Pennsylvania Line, Screwing the Reading Railroad. His Accomplices: Morgan, Rockefeller, Mills, Elkins, and Whitney. William Builds an Opulent Mansion. Vanderbilt as a Great Patron of the Arts. “THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED.” He Gathers in $100 Million In Just Seven Years. William Passes Away in 1885. Massive Scope of His Tax Evasion Revealed.
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Triumphant Plutocracy – Episode #13
An insiders view on how bankers, corporations, and lawyers took over the United States Government and became the “Rulers of America” during the Gilded Age. Written with true authority by a man who had a front row seat for it all, R. F. Pettigrew was the first senator from the state of South Dakota, and he made no friends during his time in the US Congress. These are his memoirs.
In this episode – Continued reading of Triumphant Plutocracy by Richard Franklin Pettigrew, including Chapter XV: Ten Presidents. Pliable Men, Who Served Faithfully the Business Interests. Grant was a Soldier, Not a President. Benjamin Harrison Attempts to dominate Party Politics. A Lesson In Campaign Funds. The REAL Government: Railroads, Industry, Financial, and Transportation Corporations. Grover Cleveland Vetos 5 Times More Bills Than All Previous Presidents Combined. Cleveland the Drunk. His Week Long Bender’s on Benedict’s Yacht. William McKinley Lies to Pettigrew’s Face. Annexing the Sulu Nation. The US Protects a Slaver Nation After the Civil War Supposedly Eliminates Slavery.
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History of America’s One Percent – Episode #27
In this podcast series we dive into the long and shadowy history of America’s ruling elite through the works of authors who were either silenced, suppressed, or forgotten, to discover the origins of the 1% and from where their power and wealth was, and still is, extracted. Each recording will be approx. 1 hour in length to allow for easy consumption of the material. The narrator will only interrupt the reading to provide insight, spell names, read informative footnotes, or provide definitions for archaic words.
In this episode – Continued reading of History of Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers. Includes Part III, Chapter VI: The Entailing of the Vanderbilt Fortune. Vanderbilt’s Parsimonious Habits. The Nature of His “Friends,” So-Called. His Wife and Sons. Why William H. Vanderbilt Spent Most of His Life as a Modest Farmer. The Entailment of the Massive Fortune: $90 Millions to the Chief Heir. The Rise of Standard Oil, America’s First Trust. William Vanderbilt’s Prophetic Testimony to the Hepburn Committee. The Great Strike of 1877. The B&O Railroad and False Flags. Congressional Investigations Are Designed to Obfuscate and Let Everybody Off the Hook. Vanderbilt Divests Himself of Railroad Stock and Buys Gov’t Bonds.
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Triumphant Plutocracy – Episode #12
An insiders view on how bankers, corporations, and lawyers took over the United States Government and became the “Rulers of America” during the Gilded Age. Written with true authority by a man who had a front row seat for it all, R. F. Pettigrew was the first senator from the state of South Dakota, and he made no friends during his time in the US Congress. These are his memoirs.
In this episode – Continued reading of Triumphant Plutocracy by Richard Franklin Pettigrew, including Chapter XIV: Senates and Senators. Pettigrew: “Senate Never Legislated In Interest of the American People.” Esteem for Marion butler and John P. Jones. The Rothschild’s Make an Appearance. How To Sink an Amendment to a Bill. Senator Wolcott of Colorado Enters the Senate Poor, Dies With a Fortune. The Senate Committee on Finance: Where Men Go to Make a Fortune. The Ratification of the Spanish Peace Treaty. Nelson Aldrich and Bribes, Again. How the U.S. Senate Manipulates History and Falsifies Official Records! Congressional Witch Hunts. Senator Edmunds of Vermont Called Out as a Great Bribe-Taker.
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History of America’s One Percent – Episode #26
In this podcast series we dive into the long and shadowy history of America’s ruling elite through the works of authors who were either silenced, suppressed, or forgotten, to discover the origins of the 1% and from where their power and wealth was, and still is, extracted. Each recording will be approx. 1 hour in length to allow for easy consumption of the material. The narrator will only interrupt the reading to provide insight, spell names, read informative footnotes, or provide definitions for archaic words.
In this episode – Continued reading of History of Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers. Includes Part III, Chapter V: The Vanderbilt Fortune Increases Manifold, continued. The Wisdom of Grand Larceny: the Greater the Theft, the Less Likely You Are to Go to Prison. Money As the God of Society. Harsh Discrimination’s in American Law. Vanderbilt’s Constant Purchase of Laws. His Immense Stretch: 1,300 Miles of Road From Buffalo to Chicago. His Whitewashed Legacy: Vanderbilt as the Great Improver and Renovator of Railroad Lines. How the Public Paid for Improvements to the Railroad Lines. A Poignant Example: The Sinking of Above-Ground Tracks on Park Avenue. How Accidents at Railroad Crossings Can Drive Down Real-Estate Value. The City Closes Off Large Stretch of Park Avenue for Railroad Construction. Vanderbilt Gobbles Up Property on Park Avenue. The Corrupt Tweed Regime and Tammany Hall Driven Out of Power. A “Reform” Administration Elected. The Real History of “Reform” Politics. Vanderbilt’s Vast Gifts From the “Reform” Legislatures. The Correlation Between Record Low Wages and Record High Wall Street Profits. Chauncey M. Depew: Vanderbilt’s Chief of Staff. Vanderbilt Buys Depew a Seat in the U.S. Senate. Repression of Workers. The Liberal Bastion of Massachusetts Exposed. American Sweatshops Circa the 1900’s. Sermonizing the “Best Classes”: How The Rich and Their Tools Propagandize Workers By Promising to Uplift Them Into the Middle Class. Honesty and Industry Scrutinized: The Borden Millions.
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Triumphant Plutocracy – Episode #11
An insiders view on how bankers, corporations, and lawyers took over the United States Government and became the “Rulers of America” during the Gilded Age. Written with true authority by a man who had a front row seat for it all, R. F. Pettigrew was the first senator from the state of South Dakota, and he made no friends during his time in the US Congress. These are his memoirs.
In this episode – Continued reading of Triumphant Plutocracy by Richard Franklin Pettigrew, including Chapter XIII: The United States Supreme Court. The Origins of the Constitution Redux. Jefferson Not a Party to the Constitution. The Ten Amendments to the Constitution. The Importance of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. The Supreme Court: A Dangerous Usurper. Jefferson’s Writings Reveal That the Tenth Amendment Was Written to Constrain the Supreme Court. Marbury vs. Madison. Thomas Jefferson: America Dead and Secretly Buried in 1819. “It Is the Part of a Good Judge to Enlarge His Jurisdiction.” Supreme Court Never Meant to Veto Laws as Unconstitutional. Why the Supreme Court Abandoned the Practice of Each Justice Giving an Opinion. The Notorious Dartmouth College Decision. Rights of Property Holders Supreme to the Rights of Man. The Judiciary Usurps the Powers of Congress Forever in 1857. The Supreme Court Drunk with Power. Tenth Amendment Destroyed by the Supreme Court. The First Amendment Completely Gutted by 1920. The Entire Bill of Rights Destroyed by the Supreme Court. Laws Passed in Time of War Inevitably Enforced in Times of Peace. The Supreme Court Has Always Been a Political Body. What Is the Matter With the Courts? Pettigrew’s Possible Remedies for the Supreme Court.
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