BellingcatDec 21, 2022
Together with our partners at Lighthouse Reports, we analysed over 2,000 conspiracist Telegram channels as part of our joint project to track the spread of QAnon in Europe.
https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/qanon-in-europe-tracing-a-viral-conspiracy/
QAnon in Europe: Tracing a viral conspiracy

Lighthouse Reports and Bellingcat have spent the past year working on one of the largest data-driven investigations into the spread of QAnon in Europe

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Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022
Researchers found an explosion of GESARA-related terms across the collected channels at the same time as the percentage of posts containing classic QAnon tropes and keywords stagnated.
Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022
This link between the GESARA and QAnon ecosystems isn't new, at least not in the US where the former is known as NESARA. Author @RothschildMD has called GESARA the "grandfather" of QAnon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1xzv
BBC World Service - Trending, Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives

The growing popularity of a conspiracy theory that predicts all debt will be cancelled.

BBC
Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022

QAnon and GESARA share millenarian promises of an 'end of days', in which evil will be toppled.

“The grift and the belief are not mutually exclusive, they are mutually supportive,” the 'Q Origins Project' told us. “The entire grift falls apart without the apocalyptic belief system.”

Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022
Since its emergence decades ago, the promises of the GESARA conspiracy have buttressed dubious financial schemes which reportedly saw investors lose millions of dollars. https://culteducation.com/group/897-dove-of-oneness-nesara/5759-snared-by-a-cybercult-queen.html
Snared by a cybercult queen

Archived articles about Doves of Oneness founded by Shaini Goodwin

Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022
True to form, such questionable financial schemes were also seen in European Telegram channels with an interest in GESARA.
Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022
In July, UK influencer Nicholas Veniamin made it known to his followers on Telegram that they could purchase a 100 billion Zimbabwean dollar banknote for £350 apiece. Zimbabwe abandoned its hyperinflated currency in favour of the US dollar in 2009.
Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022
Followers of GESARA believe that a great 'reset' will see billions of secret funds distributed to people across the globe, the erasure of all debts, and the revaluation of low-value currencies — including that 100 trillion dollar Zimbabwe banknote.
Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022

One Dutch channel claimed this 'reset' would take place by May 23rd. GESARA influencer Rinus Verhagen said by October 22nd.

GESARA influencers constantly herald an imminent financial reset only for the deadline to silently pass by, with a new deadline inevitably set.

Show threadBellingcatDec 21, 2022
Verhagen also runs his own cryptocurrency which he claims are "backed by GESARA funds" and promises to buy back for far more than they are currently worth in the "post-reset world".
Show thread@energiepiratDec 21, 2022
@Bellingcat Please tell us what GESARA does mean.
Show threadurmelDec 21, 2022

@energiepirat @Bellingcat
See link above https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/12/21/as-qanon-falters-european-followers-flock-to-a-financial-conspiracy/

NESARA (National Economic Security and Recovery Act) — known outside the US as GESARA (Global Economic Security and Recovery Act) — was a series of economic reforms proposed in the 1990s by Harvey Francis Bernard, a US engineering consultant. Bernard wrote down his reforms, which included a return to the gold standard, in a manuscript titled Draining the Swamp: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform.

As QAnon Falters, European Followers Flock to a Financial Conspiracy - bellingcat

As QAnon tropes wane, interest in GESARA and its promises of a 'global economic reset' has surged on Europe's conspiracist Telegram channels.

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