# Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 6, Part 2

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-06-18T20:38:59+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-book-club-the-creature-from-jekyll-island-chapter-6-part-2/
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## Resource

CannCon and Ashe in America finish Part 1 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the country-by-country bailout autopsy is relentless. Panama's canal gets handed to a dictator so his banks can collect interest. The Monetary Control Act of 1980 quietly authorizes the Federal Reserve to create money for any government on earth. Mexico defaults serially, gets currency swaps, debt swaps, and a $50 billion Clinton bailout bypassing Congress entirely. Brazil, Argentina, China, Poland, and Russia all run the same play. The Great Deception chapter argues the fall of communism was stage-managed for global convergence, not organic. And Griffin closes Part 1 with a direct challenge: this cannot be accidental. Intelligent people following a plan that fails every time are following a different plan. CannCon opens the show connecting the Iran deal to the same globalist infrastructure Griffin describes, and the whole episode lands with a viewer rant about being 38 years old with a twenty year old car, no house savings, and fifteen years of decent income. The book is doing its job.

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