2. Flight 007
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As Gabriel Gatehouse travels around America in the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, he keeps hearing about the Federal Reserve. Many people think the Fed is a central cog in a grand conspiracy to impose a sinister ‘New World Order’ and control the supply of money. These dark fears about the Federal Reserve are bound up with the fear of communism. And they go back to the Cold War… to a fringe group called The John Birch Society, and one of its leaders, Congressman Larry McDonald, who lived his life as if in the crosshairs of a terrifying communist conspiracy.
Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham
CREDITS:
U.S. Stock Market Crash - 1929 | Today in History | 29 Oct 16, AP Archive
Clips of Larry McDonald and Robert Welch from Education Is the Key (by Larry McDonald) 1980, John Birch Society and 1958 Robert Welch Speech - Insiders Plan To Take Over America (copyright unknown)
Audio of G Edward Griffin presentation from The Creature From Jekyll Island (by G. Edward Griffin), recorded 1994
Western Goals film, The Subversion Factor, Knowledge 2020 Media, 1983
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Gabriel Gatehouse, and this is Series 2 of The Coming Storm from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:12.0 | Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 0:15.3 | but if you're in the UK you can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:28.9 | Right at the beginning of the last episode we met this guy Derek Evans, a candidate in the West Virginia Republican primary. He'd been at the Capitol on January 6th. |
| 0:35.0 | He said he believed that American democracy had been captured by rogue three-letter agencies. The FBI, the CIA, and the |
| 0:48.2 | Fed, he told me. |
| 0:49.8 | Go look up the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Go look at who gets it aside whether we print more money or not. |
| 0:55.0 | It's all an illusion. |
| 0:57.0 | Derek Evans thought that the Federal Reserve was an illusion. |
| 1:02.0 | That America's Central Bank, the agency that sets monetary policy and regulates the financial system, |
| 1:08.0 | is, in fact, part of an oppressive deep state that's secretly controlling America. |
| 1:15.0 | So I did look into it and it turns out that a lot of people are very exercised about the Federal Reserve. |
| 1:24.0 | A dull topic, you might think, but it's been folded into this sweeping conspiracy theory, |
| 1:31.0 | thanks in large part to a book with an intriguing title, The Creature from Jekyll Island. |
| 1:38.7 | The book on your screen was first written in 1994, but it is currently in its 32nd printing and the author is |
| 1:47.2 | G Edward Griffin and he's joining us here on C-SPAN 2 in Las Vegas. Mr. Griffin, who is the creature from Jekyll Island? |
| 1:57.3 | The creature from Jekyll Island is the Federal Reserve System. |
| 2:00.5 | G. Edward Griffin is a bit of a jack of all trades. He tried his hand in Hollywood. He dabbled in insurance and worked as a radio announcer. |
| 2:09.0 | Then at some point he got interested in inflation. |
| 2:13.3 | What caused it, he wondered. |
| 2:15.4 | That led him to think about the nature of money. |
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