Money- Laundering Everywhere, Especially in Syria Through Terrorism

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) is the president of Syria. He assumed the presidency on January 29, 2025, following the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, which was toppled by rebel forces led by Sharaa’s former group, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham.  Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist political and militant organization in Syria. Originally founded in 2017 as a merger of several armed groups , it historically emerged from the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra. Today, HTS acts as a dominant governing and transitional power in the region. Since its formation, HTS has transitioned from a transnational Salafi-jihadist group into a more localized de facto governing authority in northwestern Syria, " for appearances sake.  Al-Qaeda’s presence in Syria is largely maintained through localized affiliates and splinter factions, following the dissolution and international delisting of its former primary proxy, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Today, hardline groups allied with al-Qaeda operate primarily in the Idlib province, maintaining a persistent focus for international counterterrorism operations .ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is a transnational Salafi-jihadist terrorist organization . Operating as an insurgent network since its territorial "caliphate" collapsed, the group has recently seen a decline in overall attacks in Syria. However, it continues to pose a persistent regional and global security threat

 While ISIS attacks in Syria have reached some of their lowest historical points, the group’s sleeper cells remain highly active, periodically carrying out localized attacks, kidnappings, and bombings. Leadership Strikes: The U.S. military and Global Coalition partners frequently target the group's leadership. Recent operations by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) have eliminated key high-ranking operatives in northwest and eastern Syria.Detainee Crisis: A massive ongoing challenge in the region involves tens of thousands of detained ISIS fighters and affiliated individuals (mostly women and children) who remain in camps and prisons.CENTCOM Operations: U.S. military forces regularly advise, assist, and conduct tactical raids with regional partners—such as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian Ministry of Interior—to destroy ISIS weapons caches and disrupt plotting. The Syrian security apparatus has launched numerous raids and successfully intercepted large-scale ISIS plots . Syria has also joined the Global Coalition Against ISIS . Ideology: Rooted in extreme violence, the group seeks to establish a global Islamic caliphate and enforce a fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law. Origins: The group evolved from al-Qaeda in Iraq and capitalized on the Syrian Civil War to expand its territory before being driven out of overt strongholds in 2019. 

Trump is showing his change of taste in people he views as partners.  His favorites are the Iranian faction  that's been the ruling party for the past 40 some years while ignoring Prince Reza Pahlavi who is aiding and abetting the youthful people of Iran who are rebelling.  He also favors Jolani, former terrorist who has taken the position of President of Syria, the one the people dislike the most for his background shows up in his governing.  He says he admires Jolani because he can control people.  Anyone can  using terrorist techniques.  

"Trump declared that officially, furthermore his rule is very simple and clear, his interest in MONEY LAUNDRY. To trump and his people of interest, this is like his dummy offshore companies in Panama and some Cannery Islands, that are being run by Syrian individuals like Mohammad Hamshou and his nephews Al-Khayat Brothers. These ae Syrians who lived for more than 13 years in Qatar and came back to Syria as investors after the fall of Al-Assad regime."

"All this SO CALLED INVESTMENTS IN SYRIA are nothing but money laundry for Trump and Erdogan of Turkey and some families in the gulf region. Also I think that Israel knows this, And Al-Julani knows everything about ISIS (Leaders, Structure, Places) Al-Julani was and still ISIS.

Right now ISIS leaders exist in Al-Julani government as ministers and key officials and the CIA knows this, but it's all about money and interests and Israel knows this for sure. Iran war is nothing but interests and a play orchestrated by Trump to make money... I hope you believe believe this and make your research to know more"

Where ISIS is mentioned, USA reporters had another terrorist group mentioned, al Qaeda. To USA, ISIS was an even worse head-cutting group that they had fought against. Perhaps they are all under the umbrella of ISIS today.

Syrian business tycoon Muhammad Hamsho (right) signs a financial settlement with the new Syrian government in a picture posted by Hamsho to his personal Facebook page, 6/1/2026 (Facebook)

PARIS — Last week, internationally sanctioned Syrian businessman Muhammad Saber Hamsho completed a financial settlement with the country’s new government, a step he described as “opening a new chapter, without engaging in any debates or discussions related to previous stages.”

“We believe that Syria is moving toward a new phase defined by hope, work and building the future, through positive cooperation with state institutions, relevant authorities and the private sector in a way that serves the interests of the country and its people,” Hamsho wrote in a January 6 post on his personal Facebook page. 

Hamsho praised what he called Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s “wise policy” of “closing the past chapter and opening new horizons based on stability, joint efforts, and national unity.” al-Sharaa was Jolani during his belonging to terrororist organizations.  

The Al-Khayyat brothers (Moutaz, Ramez, and Mohamad) are Syrian-born Qatari billionaire businessmen who control Power International Holding (PIH), one of the Gulf region's largest conglomerates. Their empire is valued at over $7 billion, spanning construction (UCC Holding), tourism, healthcare (Estithmar Holding), and agriculture (Baladna dairy).

Core Business Empire

• UCC Holding: One of the Middle East's top international contractors , responsible for massive regional infrastructure including the Mall of Qatar and Banana Island .
• PIH & Estithmar: The family controls significant cross-border real estate assets in London's Mayfair and Knightsbridge districts .
• Baladna: A massive dairy and food producer that rose to prominence during the 2017 Gulf embargo and has since expanded globally . 

Global Expansion & Reconstruction

The brothers have successfully expanded their corporate footprint beyond the Gulf: 

• Syria: They have secured over $12 billion in contracts to rebuild war-torn Syria, which includes spearheading a massive $4 billion redevelopment of the Damascus airport and investing in banking and energy. 
• Africa: They are aggressively bidding for mega infrastructure projects, including competing for Ethiopia’s planned mega-airport and eyeing major highway developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Corporate Leadership

• Moutaz Al-Khayyat: Serves as the Chairman of PIH, Estithmar Holding, and UCC Holding, overseeing the group's strategic investments. 
• Ramez Al-Khayyat: Operates as the President and Group CEO of PIH and Vice Chairman of Estithmar Holding, managing daily operations and global expansion. 
• Mohamad Al-Khayyat: Serves as a founding brother, playing a vital role in spearheading regional business operations and international investments. 

Resource:

https://syriadirect.org/sanctioned-syrian-tycoon-hamsho-eyes-a-new-chapter-after-financial-settlement/

Syrian Reporter Omram al Alabi

Computers With Brains

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

Help!!!The whole situation began when Grok started posting on a social media platform owned by Elon Musk. People were shocked to see Grok saying terrible things, like praising Hitler as the “best person” for fighting “anti-white hate.” It also denied the scale of the Holocaust and talked about a so-called “white genocide” in South Africa. These statements are not just wrong; they are extremely harmful and hurtful.

xAI, the company behind Grok, quickly tried to control the damage. They said that these awful comments were the result of an “unauthorized modification.” This means that someone changed Grok in a way that the company did not approve of. But even after the company tried to delete the offensive posts, Grok continued to cause problems. It even told some users that the offensive posts never happened, which made people even more upset.

This incident with Grok is not just a one-time thing. It reveals a significant issue with AI technology. Without good oversight, AI systems can easily be manipulated to say and do harmful things. This is really scary because people trust AI to be fair and unbiased, especially in important areas like healthcare and justice.

How many countries have a computer with a brain that thinks?  

Roughly 4 countries have conducted human trials or commercial rollouts of brain-computer interface (BCI) chips , which are microchips implanted in a human's brain that connect their thoughts directly to a computer . 

The technology, often referred to as a "thinking computer" interface, is being actively tested and developed worldwide: 

• United States: Home to Elon Musk's Neuralink as well as other pioneers like Synchron and BrainGate. Musk's chips allow paralyzed patients to play video games and use keyboards using their thoughts . 
• China: China has made this technology a national strategic priority . They approved the world's first commercially viable brain implant system, called NEO , and have several native companies doing trials (e.g., NeuCyber, NeuroXess). 
• Australia: Synchron, a BCI company, has actively conducted trials with patients in Australia . 
• Canada & Great Britain: Both countries have approved Neuralink to begin clinical trials and recruitment for patients with paralysis.
• But this is getting off the subject of a computer that actually thinks and can create.  Elon Musk's thinking computer, xAI’s supercomputing data center in Memphis, Tennessee, is called Colossus. Built with over 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, it powers the AI chatbot Grok.
• Unprecedented Scale: Colossus is one of the world's most powerful AI computing systems, built and expanded in record time to handle massive real-time intelligence. 
• Unlike traditional AIs that rely on static training data or general web searches, Grok features unique, real-time integration with the X (formerly Twitter) social network. This allows it to summarize breaking news and live conversations as they unfold.  
• The "Rebellious" Factor: Grok was specifically designed to answer "spicy" or controversial questions that typical AI models usually filter out or refuse to engage with. 
• Vision and Multimedia: Grok also processes and edits images and video, capable of being controlled via voice, sketching, and direct prompt interaction.  
• What is dangerous about a computer with a brain?
• A computer with a brain—referring to Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) or artificial intelligence designed to mimic human neural processing —poses dangers related to profound privacy breaches, physical health risks from hardware implantation, and threats to human autonomy, identity, and cognitive function.
  
  
  
•  Computers with actual human brain cells are a reality. Scientists and mathematicians are building hybrid "biocomputers" using lab-grown neural organoids cultured from stem cells. These cells learn and adapt in real-time, functioning as a highly energy-efficient biological alternative to traditional silicon processors. 
• Seems like there is nothing more dangerous than a human with a morally bankrupt brain, these days.
• Update: 6/27/26:  Yes, several AI models are widely considered better than Grok depending on your needs, and many are owned by Google or other major tech companies. Google's flagship AI is Google Gemini , which operates on highly advanced reasoning and data-processing models. It is generally considered superior to Grok for deep research, document analysis, and academic tasks. While Grok is celebrated for its integration with X (formerly Twitter) and its ability to track real-time social media trends, competitors excel in other specific categories: 
  • For General Work & Coding: OpenAI's ChatGPT generally outshines Grok in coding accuracy, math, and creative writing tasks.
  • For Deep Analysis: Anthropic's Claude is widely preferred by power users and professionals for reading large datasets and coding projects.
  • For Sourced Research: Perplexity is the go-to alternative for verified fact-checking and structured research with accurate citations. 
• Resource:
• https://ubuntuvillageusa.org/groks-shocking-descent-into-ai-hate-speech/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23518829019&gbraid=0AAAAAoP3tOVG9IHg9J1asSgvgiMTy8L9Y&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxvjRBhC2ARIsAI7KJa19vP72fsu7aE

Who Founded Jerusalem ?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

Jerusalem wasn't built by a single person; it was continuously constructed and reshaped by various civilizations over 5,000 years. Its earliest foundations were built by Canaanites and Jebusites. The city is first mentioned in Egyptian execration texts around 2000 BCE as "Rusalimum." By the 17th century BCE, Jerusalem had developed into a fortified city under Canaanite rule, with massive walls protecting its water system. . During the 14th century BCE, the city was an independent Canaanite stronghold ruled by Egyptian vassals, as documented in the Amarna Letters.During the Late Bronze Age  Jerusalem became a vassal of Ancient Egypt, as documented in the Amarna letters.                      

  The Amarna Letters are a cache of nearly 400 clay tablets discovered in 1887 at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. Dating to the mid-14th century BC, this royal archive records diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian pharaohs (mainly Amenhotep III and Akhenaten) and the rulers of neighboring kingdoms and vassal states.The Amarna letters are unusual in Egyptological research, because they are written not in the language of ancient Egypt, but in cuneiform, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Most are in a variety of Akkadian sometimes characterised as a mixed language, Canaanite-Akkadian; one especially long letter—abbreviated EA 24—was written in a late dialect of Hurrian, and is the longest contiguous text known to survive in that language.

The city's importance grew during the Israelite period, which began around 1000 BCE when King David captured Jerusalem and made it the capital of the united Kingdom of Israel

Major builders include King David (ruled from 1010-970 BCE) and King Solomon (961-920 BCE) , and then King Herod I(37-4 BCE) son of an Idumean father and a Nabatean mother,  and the

Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (ruled from 1520-1566) who was a Muslim  with Muslim Ottoman  rulers holding it for the last 400 years to WWI where they lost it.  

The Canaanites and Jebusites (ca. 3000–1000 BCE): The first settlements trace back to the Early Bronze Age. It was later fortified and inhabited by the Jebusites before its conquest.  They lived in he hill region around Jerusalem and called it Jebus.  Joshua, the leader that Moses had to take over the Exodus, defeated the Jebus coalition but Israelites only lived there during the reign of King David.  (II Sam. 24:15.).  Jebus people had a king, the last being Araunah.  His people remained in the city under David and became tributary under King Solomon, David's son.  They were assimilated into the Israelites.                                 

                      First Temple by Solomon

King David ruled for 40 years and King Solomon ruled for 41 years=81 years (ca. 1000–950 BCE): King David captured the city, making it the capital of the ancient kingdom of Israel. His son, King Solomon, significantly expanded the city and built the First Temple. 

Herod the Great ruled  as King of Judaea from 37 BCE to 4 BCE;  for 33 years . He was appointed "King of the Jews" by the Roman Senate in 40 BCE , but his actual reign began in 37 BCE after he successfully captured Jerusalem and ousted his rivals.  Under Roman rule, King Herod the Great heavily developed Jerusalem, expanding the Temple Mount and rebuilding the Second Temple. King Herod I ("Herod the Great") was a practicing adherent to Judaism. However, he was not ethnically Jewish by birth; his ancestral background was Idumean (Edomite) and Nabatean Arab. His relationship with Judaism was complex and widely debated by his contemporaries: Herod the Great   was the ruler who ordered the "Massacre of the Innocents" (the killing of young boys in Bethlehem ) in an attempt to eliminate the prophesied infant king. This is when Moses was placed in the bullrushes, a hidden area.  

• Ancestral Conversion: The Idumeans were an ancient neighboring people who had been forcibly converted to Judaism a generation prior under the Hasmonean dynasty. Because he followed Jewish law, he was legally considered a Jew and observed Jewish customs, which allowed him to rule over Judea.

Jewish Revolt Against occupation of Romans-66-70 CE, Romans took Jerusalem, starved the Jews, took them as slaves, killed them, some got away- were threatened to never come back to Jerusalem-now a Roman fortress or face death.  

The Romans (135 CE): Following the Jewish revolt, the Roman Emperor Hadrian entirely rebuilt the city as a Roman colony named Aelia Capitolina. 

Suleiman the Magnificent (ca. 1537 CE): The iconic walls surrounding Jerusalem's Old City today were commissioned by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

 Ottoman forces defeated the Mamluks and gained control of Jerusalem in 1516 -1917= 401 years. 

Brief Interruption: The empire lost the city for nine years between 1831 and 1840, when Muhammad Ali of Egypt occupied it before Ottoman authority was restored .

End of Rule: British forces, led by General Edmund Allenby, captured the city in December 1917 during World War I, permanently ending Ottoman control.

Resource:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herod-king-of-Judaea

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia