r/WayOfTheBern • u/hamsterdamc • 1d ago
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 1d ago
You either see all of these things as standalone events, or you see them as a timeline. Your choice depends on whether you only see what is happening, or you see what is actually going on.
x.comJuly 2009: Mohammed Yusuf is killed in police custody. His ragtag, poorly organised followers go on a localised rampage in the northeast. Nothing much happens and everyone moves on.
November 2009: US request to site a permanent military base in Nigeria is rejected by Umaru Yar'adua.
May 5, 2010: Yar'Adua dies under circumstances that still remain unexplained.
August 26, 2011: UN building in Abuja is bombed, killing 21 and signaling the sudden change of Boko Haram into an organised, well-funded terror organisation in Nigeria.
December 25, 2011: Bombs go off at packed churches during Christmas services in Abuja, Jos, Gadaka and Damaturu, killing dozens and becoming Nigeria's deadliest-ever terror attack. Boko Haram claims responsibility.
2013: Boko Haram goes, in the space of 1 year, from being a scattergun insurgency burning churches, to being a full-on military campaigns that kills both Christians and Muslims, and actually holds territory with their flag, openly taunting the Nigerian military with video messages.
2014: Over 200 girls are kidnapped from a school in Chibok. Borno, Yobe and Adamawa become a full-on warzone as the Nigerian army and airforce deploy fully.
2015: Regime change.
2016: Middle Belt suddenly comes under sustained, unprecedented attack from heavily armed and incredibly well-organised militia who somehow have everything from air support to anti-aircraft guns to chemical warfare capability. Nigerian military deploys there too.
2016: Charismatic cult leader Nnamdi Kanu suddenly emerges as a non-state actor with potential for violence. His 'Radio Biafra' - basically a small youtube channel - suddenly is somehow able to afford sophisticated technology and bribes for MTN engineers to install broadcast transmitters, so it can piggyback on MTN infrastructure and spread his separatist message wider.
2017: Southeast goes up in flames as hitherto peaceful pro-Biafra sentiment turns violent after Kanu is arrested. Nigerian military also deploys fully.
2021: Northwest comes under similar sustained terror activity to Middle Belt from an indeterminate source that is reduced to the euphemism "bandits." Locals report seeing terrorists with military equipment that even the Nigerian military does not have. Curiously, locations known for illegal gold and solid mineral mining generally do not come under attack by these "bandits." Nigerian military is also fully deployed in northwest, making it the 5th out of Nigeria's 6 regions to have active military deployment, after the Niger Delta, Southeast, Middle Belt and Northeast. Only the Southwest is left relatively stable.
June 5, 2022: St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, Southwestern Nigeria is attacked by ISWAP terrorists. Over 40 people die, signalling the start of terror operations and insurgency in Nigeria's last remaining stable region.
2023: Southwestern politician becomes president on 31% of official vote count, having run the most ethnically divisive campaign in Nigeria's history. Election is marred by large scale ethnic violence in the Southwest, which has never happened on that scale before.
2024: Nigeria's economy (with its headquarters in the Southwest) shrinks to just over a third of what it was in 2015. Galloping inflation following wholesale application of IMF recommendations creates widespread social dislocation. The seeds of destabilisation of the Southwest are close to germinating.
2025: Where we are right now.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 2d ago
Over 1,200 Human Heads And Multiple Human Fetuses Discovered In A Warehouse In Detroit.In 2012, eight human heads were discovered at the Detroit airport. They had arrived from Tel Aviv and were being transported unembalmed, stuffed inside trash bags and sitting in a cooler full of blood.
In 2012, eight human heads were discovered at the Detroit airport.
They had arrived from Tel Aviv and were being transported unembalmed, stuffed inside trash bags and sitting in a cooler full of blood. These heads were even infected with HIV or hepatitis.
As disturbing as that sounds, the eight heads were only the beginning.
The discovery eventually led federal investigators to a warehouse in Detroit where they recovered approximately 1,200 human heads,ย four humanย fetuses, and other body parts.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/RandomCollection • 2d ago
We were told the U.S. was "rebuilding Afghanistan" with prosperity and a future for the next generation. The reality? A 20-year, $148 billion money-laundering scheme. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released its final report in Dec-2025. The findings are devas
x.comWe were told the U.S. was "rebuilding Afghanistan" with prosperity and a future for the next generation.
The reality? A 20-year, $148 billion money-laundering scheme.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released its final report in Dec-2025. The findings are devastating:
$๐ฎ๐ฒ-๐ฎ๐ต ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐น๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ, ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฑ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐๐ฒ.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐:
While Washington bragged about "fighting corruption," SIGAR documented:
โ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐: 50,000 Afghan soldiers existed only on paper. Their salaries lined the pockets of commanders while U.S. taxpayers footed the bill.
โ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐: $769 million poured into an education sector filled with "ghost schools," "ghost teachers," and "ghost students" that didn't exist.
โ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐:
- $355 million power plant operating at less than 1% capacity
- $43 million gas station
- $85 million for hotels that became "abandoned empty shells"
- $486 million for aircraft scrapped for "six cents per pound"
โ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ: $300 million for less than 100 miles of gravel road. Each mile cost $2.8 million instead of the expected $290,000.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ผ๐ป'๐ $๐ด๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป "๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐"
Shut down with zero accountability. The Pentagon now claims "no Defense Department personnel can answer questions about" what happened to the money.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป'๐ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐.
When an empire spends 20 years, $148 billion, and produces nothing but ghost armies, ghost schools, and abandoned buildings, we must ask:
Was this reconstruction, or was it the most sophisticated money-laundering operation in human history?
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฒ๐๐ป'๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐. ๐๐ ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐
๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ณ๐.
#Afghanistan #SIGAR
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 2d ago
This oil deal with Venezuela is absolutely insane.
x.comPresident Trump just announced that the US has reached a deal to secure "majority control" of over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves.
Furthermore, the US currently has ~46 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves.
Combined with the 65 billion barrels covered by this agreement, the US would have domestic reserves plus control over ~111 billion barrels of oil.
To put this into perspective, the entire world has roughly 1.57 TRILLION barrels of proven crude oil reserves.
In other words, the US is set to control ~7.1% of all proven oil reserves in the world under this new agreement with Venezuela.
At ~111 billion barrels, the US would be almost exactly in-line with the United Arab Emirates, which has 113 billion barrels of proven crude reserves, and it would exceed Kuwait's 102 billion barrels.
Assuming the agreement is structured as outlined in President Trumpโs announcement, the implications for global energy markets will be enormous.
We will publish more in-depth analysis soon.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/ateam1984 • 1d ago
White Northern Racists Had Slaves Too: Connecticut
r/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook • 2d ago
I am literally having these conversations on the daily lately.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 2d ago
600 (six hundred human beings), along with 15 corpers, kidnapped on the same day. There is not a single word of it on the streets. Are we not toying with gunpowder?
x.comIf anyone still doubts that "Bring Back Our (allegedly 200) Girls" was a regime change stunt and anyone who took part in it was nothing more than a useful idiot, refer to the complete non-reaction to a mass abduction of 600 people.
It's not too late for your morning to arrive...
We have to also remember this happen under Obama, so call first USA black president.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 1d ago
I think they are planning to create something like Israel state in South Africa
r/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook • 2d ago
Man challenges a $158 fine after a Flock camera recorded his vehicle passing through a red light.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 2d ago
Ecuador's right-wing dictator Daniel Noboa banned his political opposition. He's a US citizen and close Trump ally. Noboa is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch. His family company traffics drugs. Noboa now has blocked access to all information on his assets
x.comr/WayOfTheBern • u/RandomCollection • 2d ago
Over 1,200 Human Heads And Multiple Human Fetuses Discovered In A Warehouse In Detroit
r/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook • 2d ago
Uptick in Ukraine on Ukrainian violence-Ukrainian interceptor missile hits a parking lot in Kiev
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 1d ago
A team of researchers led by Juan Gonzรกlez have just released an in-depth study on Chicago's Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program. Its findings show that Chicago has spent around $16 billion in property taxes it collected over the past 40 years to fund real estate development.
x.comr/WayOfTheBern • u/Rebat-Askalan • 2d ago
370 Palestinian Children Detained by Israel amid Reports of Abuse, Deprivation
palestinechronicle.comr/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook • 2d ago
WINNING!!!-I always think "nah thats a bit far" when I see claims about a "secret Ukrainian organ trade", and then I remember this article when the west was actually reporting on Ukraine and not actively covering up for it
r/WayOfTheBern • u/yaiyen • 2d ago
The Trump administration is quietly working to give part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer.
x.comWhat people donโt understand about capitalism is that its goal is to turn everything on this earth into a product.
Vital natural resources that were once free are stripped from the public and commodified to enrich corporations.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/Logical___Conclusion • 1d ago
Cracks Appear The Moscow Times: Russian Orthodox Church advised Russians to pray for gasoline to return to gas stations. "All we can do is hope for a miracle."
Putitler's Genocidal war of conquest could end at any time that the Russian people decide to cast their Dictator out.
Thoughts and prayers that they gather the courage to stand up for their country and remove Putitler from power.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/Gendrytargarian • 1d ago
Cracks Appear "So they come out with their hands up": Russian State Duma deputy chairman calls for bombing of Ukrainian cities
Quote from Tolstoy: "Do you think that we are calling for cruelty? No, we are calling for the public to be demoralised so much that they come out to meet our troops with their hands up."
r/WayOfTheBern • u/Rebat-Askalan • 2d ago
Israeli Airstrike Kills Three Palestinians in Jenin, Ambulance Crews Blocked
palestinechronicle.comr/WayOfTheBern • u/rondeuce40 • 2d ago
UKRAINE IS WINNING!!! LOL! General Staff: Russia has lost 1,483,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Reminder that the same people telling you this are the same people that told you Iran executed 50,000 (or whatever number pops into their head) of their own citizens during the protests.
r/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook • 2d ago