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SULTAN OF BRUNEI OWNS THE WORLD’S LARGEST HOME? DOES HE REALLY NED THAT MUCH SPACE?

The Sultan of Brunei owns a vast collection of cars, but he’s also the owner of the largest residential palace in the world.

It’s called Istana Nurul Iman and it cost $1.4 billion to build… in 1984.

For reference, that’s equivalent to around $4.6 billion in today’s money.

But what’s truly impressive is the number of bathrooms.

The Sultan of Brunei is a real estate mogul

Obviously, most heads of state own public properties at home and private estates abroad, but the Sultan takes this to the next level.

Through the Brunei Investment Agency, the Sultan owns the Dorchester Hotel in London, the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles County, Le Meurice in Paris, Hotel Eden in Rome, and a few more.

It’s a nice portfolio, and the value is spectacular, although the real estate market in Europe isn’t the same as it is in the US, which means it goes up but it can also go down.

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Still, to a man worth billions of dollars, that probably doesn’t matter much.

And if all else fails, he can always go back to the majestic palace he owns back home.

The Sultan’s place is is a big as some villages and towns in Europe

In his homeland, he owns (among other things) a $1.4 billion grand palace with 1,788 rooms and 257 bathrooms.

All in all, the estate spans over 2.1 million square feet – roughly the same as the Old Town in Monaco.

Located on a riverside sprawl, the palace is situated on the banks of the Brunei River, a stone’s throw from the country’s capital Bandar Seri Begawan.

The Guinness World Records actually states the location as the largest residential palace in the world.

The interior is adorned with gold-woven carpet, and some of the fixtures feature actual diamonds.

On top of that, the Sultan had silk imported from China, and marble imported from Italy.

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In addition to the 257 bathrooms, the palace also includes a banquet hall with enough capacity for over 5,000 guests, a mosque that can hold up to 1,500 guests, 110 garages for the Sultan’s immense car collection, an air conditioned stable for the Sultan’s 200 polo horses, and five swimming pools.

The icing on the cake? It apparently includes 44 stairwells and 18 elevators.

CHINESE ELECTRIC CARS ARE POPULAR ALL OVER THE WORLD, EXCEPT IN CHINA!!!!

A Xiaomi SU7 Max car is displayed at the entrance to the Xiaomi EV Factory in Beijing.© greg baker/Afp/Getty Images

The world is applauding the latest Chinese vehicles and sales are surging almost everywhere the cars are available. The one exception: China itself.

New-car sales in China, the world’s largest new-vehicle market, fell 22% in May compared with the same month a year earlier to around 1.5 million vehicles. That was the eighth straight month of year-over-year declines, according to the China Passenger Car Association. Year-to-date car sales are running nearly 20% below last year, hitting profits at the country’s leading carmakers.

Monthly vehicle sales in China

The troubles at home are pushing Chinese carmakers—including foreign brands that manufacture there—into an even more aggressive expansion overseas. The Chinese auto industry shipped 784,000 cars abroad in May, according to the association, 75% more than in the same month last year.

In January, Beijing halved a tax exemption for plug-in vehicles and reduced subsidies when people trade in an old vehicle for an electric vehicle, hitting EV sales. Then, in March, the Iran war led to rising gasoline prices, hurting sales of traditionally powered cars as well.

Many consumers were already hesitant about big-ticket purchases in an economy hit by deflation and high youth unemployment. Retail sales in China grew just 0.2% in April, the slowest in more than three years.

“We need to do something to really rebuild consumer confidence,” said Stella Li, executive vice president at BYD, China’s largest carmaker.

For the first quarter, many Chinese automakers reported their worst results in years. BYD’s net profit roughly halved to the equivalent of $590 million, its lowest since mid-2022. Smaller players, such as EV maker XPeng, are suffering losses in a market crowded with dozens of competitors and hundreds of models.

Quarterly net income

BYD has sought to revive business with technology announcements such as five-minute flash charging, long battery warranties and pledges to cover the cost of any accidents caused by its “God’s Eye” driver-assistance system.

The focus on innovation marks a change from the price cuts that drove BYD’s spectacular growth in earlier years. The Chinese government last year clamped down on what it saw as excessive competition in the EV industry, fearful that a vicious price war was hurting suppliers and contributing to the deflationary mood.

With its unusual automated-driving promise, BYD wants to “put money on the table, give consumers confidence,” said Li. “I’m more focused on quality than quantity.”

As the local market struggles, Chinese carmakers are accelerating their export push. BYD founder Wang Chuanfu said at the company’s annual general meeting Tuesday that it planned to be the world’s largest automaker within five years, according to a summary of the meeting.

China’s monthly vehicle exports

Among the few countries not experiencing an influx of Chinese cars is the U.S., which has introduced high tariffs and other restrictions to keep them out.

On Monday, the Pentagon added BYD and NIO, another Chinese carmaker, to a list of companies deemed to have links with China’s military, a move that bars them from carrying out work for the Defense Department. The companies said they didn’t have military links and were wrongly included on the list.

Elsewhere, the rapid growth of Chinese vehicle exports has raised alarm bells and prompted moves to restrict trade. China’s carmakers have responded by building factories and joint ventures, particularly in Europe.

“The key is to find a way to really partner and join forces,” said Brian Gu, XPeng’s vice chairman. “Ultimately, we need to invest more.”

DREAMS OF THE FUTURE WORLD-MUSK’S DREAMS YOUR MONEY!

Science fiction? Musk’s lofty SpaceX goals unrealistic, skeptics say

SpaceX has placed a big bet on the success of its newest rocket, Starship, but it is still under development (TIMOTHY A. CLARY) (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/AFP)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has made awe-inspiring achievements since its founding over two decades ago and has big ideas — colonies on Mars, orbital AI data centers, rapidly reusable rockets — for the future.

But as SpaceX makes its record-breaking public market debut, some experts express doubts it can reach its lofty goals, especially on its planned timeline.

“We achieve what others think is really the impossible, and we make that possible,” CFO Bret Johnsen said in a recent video.

Indeed, the company’s development of a partially reusable rocket — which has allowed it to conduct more launches than all other providers combined — was once thought unattainable.

“SpaceX has accomplished a great deal, that’s quite real,” Robert Zubrin, an engineer and president of the Mars Society, told AFP.

“On the other hand, Musk frequently makes claims that are not real,” he said, citing deadlines that are regularly pushed back.

– Fairytale timelines –

While many experts believe they will see SpaceX send humans to Mars in their lifetime, the prospect of a mass inhabited colony will take much, much longer — if ever.

“The simple answer is that I don’t see this as realistic at all,” said Christian Bach, head of the space transportation division at Germany’s Technical University of Dresden and co-author of a critical analysis of Musk’s Mars plans.

He said that even just settling a handful of people on the Red Planet is unlikely this century due to unsolved technological and biological challenges.

To make the roundtrip journey to Mars, which takes about three years, Musk and Spacex are counting on their newest rocket under development: Starship.

However, perfecting launches with Starship will not be enough, warns Scott Hubbard, a former senior NASA official. Astronauts will also need new life-sustaining systems, such as oxygen and water recyclers.

“They like to portray it that they can do it on their own, they cannot,” said Hubbard.

He believes NASA — which is planning future missions to explore Mars but not to colonize it — will have to join the project for it to become a reality.

SpaceX also faces a major hurdle, Hubbard noted, over its goal of refuelling rockets in-orbit.

The idea would be to launch several rockets, one carrying crew or cargo, and the others carrying tanks of liquid oxygen and liquid methane that would be offloaded through coupling.

That capability “is something that is absolutely crucial to their plans that has never been done before,” he said.

“They have extraordinarily good engineers…so they will solve the problem, the thing is the schedule,” he added.

– New-age Napoleon? –

SpaceX has other major projects on its plate — including building a modified Starship to use as a lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program, and developing a new satellite constellation to serve as orbital AI data centers.

While the idea of moving energy-intensive AI data centers off-Earth may sound appealing, most experts remain skeptical.

“If you do conquer all the technical hurdles, there’s still the economic aspect, and it’s just not financially reasonable at this point in time,” Kathleen Curlee, a space analyst at Georgetown University, told AFP.

Zubrin was more blunt: “This AI data centers in space thing is fiction,” he said.

“If you owned a company that could build ocean ships better than anyone else, you would say the place to do AI is in the middle of the ocean,” he quipped.

Thanks to the unprecedented influx of cash from SpaceX’s IPO, the company will nonetheless have plenty of resources to devote to the project and others.

While flying high for the moment, SpaceX could still face unexpected turbulence — as evidenced by competitor Blue Origin’s recent launchpad mega-explosion.

Zubrin linked Musk’s potential for failure to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s calamitous campaign in Russia.

If he were to fail, Zubrin said, it’d be because “he had succeeded in everything he had done before, and so no one could tell him that he was wrong.”

USA MUSLIMS NOT WANTING TO INTEGRATE INTO AMERICAN SOCIETY. THE ISLAMIC TAKEOVER IS REAL!..

National Security Threat: Pakistani Imam Converts 165-Acre Illinois Holiday Inn Into Muslim City — Runs Visa Pipeline and Brags His Pennsylvania Islamic Retreat Sits Beside the ‘Underground Pentagon’

A Pakistani imam is quietly turning a 165-acre former Illinois Holiday Inn into a $400 million all-Muslim gated city – a self-contained enclave with its own mosque, school, and economy, built so residents never have to step outside its walls into American society. It is one node in what he claims is a $2.5 billion empire of hotels, properties, and Sharia-compliant investment platforms stretching across the United States.

He markets it worldwide, runs a visa company and a six-month pipeline that funnels foreign nationals and their money into the country, and brags that a second property he owns in Pennsylvania sits atop America’s “underground Pentagon,” the government’s nuclear-war bunker. In Urdu-language interviews never meant for American ears, he drops the talk of “love” and says it plainly: “The next war is of the merchants” — Islam, he explains, will spread through commerce the way it once spread through traders, not armies.

By his own numbers, the Illinois project is designed to lose money, which raises the question no one in authority has asked: Who is really funding the construction of a parallel society on American soil, and why is no one watching?

Muslim Pakistani man is quietly constructing a $400 million Islamic gated resort community in Illinois while operating a retreat center directly beside America’s most sensitive government bunker, and almost no one is paying attention.

Jamil Ahmed Sukhera, an imam, real estate developer, and founder of several Sharia-compliant businesses, has acquired a 165-acre former Holiday Inn resort located approximately one hour from Chicago and 30 minutes from both Naperville and Aurora. He is redeveloping the property into “V Resort Living”, a planned Muslim residential community intended to provide residents with a wide range of amenities and services within a gated setting. The resort is largely move-in ready and includes more than 330 residential units, with prices ranging from $135,000 to $280,000. The Muslim enclave is designed so residents will truly never have to leave the gated community for anything.

At the same time, he promotes his Marifah retreat center in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, as sitting atop a mountain adjacent to the Raven Rock Mountain Complex, the hardened “underground Pentagon” that serves as the nation’s top continuity-of-government facility for senior U.S. officials during nuclear war or national emergencies.

openly boasts about its ultra-secure, no-fly-zone location.

This is a major national security threat, being advanced by a Muslim Pakistani man who has built a vast, unnoticed empire of properties, hotels, visa services, and Islamic initiatives across America.

The significance of this location stands out because Sukhera is not simply a real estate developer. He oversees a growing network of businesses, including hospitality properties, immigration-related services, religious retreats, investment platforms, and large-scale real estate projects aimed at Muslim buyers in the United States and abroad.

The Pennsylvania retreat’s proximity to Raven Rock raises questions that warrant scrutiny as Sukhera continues to expand his footprint across the United States through a network of properties, businesses, and religious initiatives.

The Illinois resort project, therefore, cannot be viewed in isolation. It is part of a broader ecosystem of organizations, real-estate holdings, and international outreach efforts connected to Sukhera’s long-term vision for community development and investment.

This first-of-its-kind Muslim resort, V Resort, is a one-stop mini town open to foreign investors. Its owner, Jamil Ahmed Sukhera, also runs another business where he helps people obtain visas. This makes the new Islamic community a destination spot for all Muslims worldwide.

The Muslim resort will include:

golf course
basketball and volleyball courts
cricket pitch, tennis courts
indoor waterpark
walking trails, lakes
two Olympic-sized swimming pools
waterpark
school
mosque
halal dining and restaurants
marketplace/retail
future grocery store
future shopping centers
and much more!

You will truly never have to leave the gated community for anything.

“Look, it’s not just about this community. In the entire United States, the promotion of Islam is not happening in the right way. Islam is a religion of love. Islam is a religion of inclusion. Islam is not just about Muslims coming together in one place. What does Islam mean? Islam is the religion of all nations. And the purpose of Islam is to connect with everyone. To share love with everyone. And to welcome every culture. So that everyone who comes here, gets a new face full of love for Islam.

I see that in the next 25 years,this wave will start from here. This wave will spread all over the world. And everyone will see a new image of Islam in the last 25-30 years. And this will be our first role model. How good of a people we are. How loving of a people we are. How beneficial we are for society. If we follow Islam properly, how we can become millionaires. How we can lead the world in an ethical way. And that is what I think. That we should create the next generation of billionaires. This is what I think. And you will see it from here.” – Jamil Ahmed Sukhera

This is not a message of love or inclusion. It is a candid admission of a supremacist vision. While Sukhera speaks of “love” and “welcoming every culture,” he is simultaneously building a gated, Muslim enclave explicitly designed so residents never have to leave or assimilate into American society. His stated goal is to erase the existing image of Islam and replace it with a new, sanitized one, not through genuine reform, but through demographic expansion, economic power, and parallel institutions. By openly declaring that this resort will launch a global “wave” and produce the next generation of Muslim billionaires who will “lead the world ethically”, a phrase that, in Islamic usage, means under Sharia. Sukhera reveals the real objective: using American soil, American infrastructure, and American freedoms to grow a separate Islamic power base that ultimately seeks to dominate, not integrate. This is linguistic jihad dressed up in soft language: words that mean one thing to Western ears and something entirely different to the Ummah. It is precisely why this project represents a national security threat, not a harmless housing development.

Muslim Resort Foreigners WantedFrom cradle to grave, V Resorts, a Muslim resort, will provide everything you need so you never have to leave. Just an hour outside Chicago and 30 minutes from Naperville, a former Holiday Inn resort is being transformed into an Islamic residential community. The project will feature more than 330 residences, private lakes, swimming pools, a water park, a mosque, a school, halal dining options, a golf course, and other amenities. It even has a specified complex for the elderly community. As a gated community, access will be restricted, and visitors will be required to check in before entering.

Once marketed as a family vacation destination where visitors would spend a week enjoying the resort’s amenities, the property is now being transformed into what developers describe as a “faith-based community” centered around Islam. The vision is to create a permanent Islamic enclave where residents can establish their homes and help shape the neighborhood’s character. The 165-acre property already includes a mosque and educational facilities, providing key infrastructure for the community from the outset. It is a private gated community where visitors must register upon arrival.

The development is also being marketed internationally. Its owner, Jamil Ahmed Sukhera, operates a business that assists foreign nationals with obtaining U.S. visas, which is noteworthy given the project’s outreach to overseas buyers.

This town will have a population of approximately 1200-2000 people, whether they are Americans or Muslim foreigners buying property in America. Jamil explains that when people come to America, what they miss most is their culture and values, and this town will provide them with that. But it is generally understood that in Muslim polities like Pakistan, “culture and values” nearly always means the sharia.

Apartments will be offered at several price points, with studios starting at $135,000, one-bedroom units at $180,000, and two-bedroom units at $280,000. Sales will be on a first-come, first-served basis. There will be 60 studio apartments and 210 one-bedroom apartments, with the remaining units consisting primarily of two-bedroom apartments, along with a limited number of larger four-bedroom units that are not being advertised. Buyers who purchase early will have access to the best available properties.

Jamil describes several groups of buyers he believes will be attracted to the development. The first group consists of retirees who will be supported and cared for within the community. Another target group is work-from-home families who are concerned about how their children are being raised in America and who might otherwise consider relocating back to countries such as Pakistan, India, the UAE, or Saudi Arabia because they feel local schools and social environments do not align with their Islamic values. Jamil believes this community will offer many of the same values and cultural benefits found in Muslim-majority countries, particularly because it is envisioned as a gated, Muslim-oriented resort-style community.

He reflects on his own childhood, recalling how elders played an active role in supervising and mentoring children, and he hopes to recreate that sense of community on the property. A third category of buyer is the investor who purchases units as rental properties. Jamil explains that the early-bird price for a studio unit is $135,000, while he estimates the market value at approximately $210,000. Once the early-bird inventory is sold (30% of the units), units will be offered at market rates. He believes this pricing structure will allow investors to purchase at a lower cost and generate returns through rental income. The development is also open to foreign investors interested in purchasing property in the United States and earning profits from their investments.

According to Jamil, wherever there is a mosque or a school, demand automatically increases. This private gated community will have both. The last ideal candidate for this community is those who want to start a business in America to “give their lives a fresh start.” Jamil promises to connect these people with other entrepreneurs and secure good deals for them. He will provide them with guidance.

Despite being marketed as a luxury resort-style community and a five-star gated development, these prices are relatively low compared to many similar projects in the Chicago suburbs. As a result, the units may be attractive to a broader range of buyers, including lower-income households and international purchasers seeking an affordable entry point into the U.S. real estate market. All units will be fully furnished and move-in ready, a true turnkey living experience.

Each unit isn’t just fully furnished, TVs are provided, as well as $2,000 jaccuzi tubs in the master baths. Some units are equipped with board games. The bathrooms themselves are set up according to the Sunnah, explains Jamil, which is why the toilets are all separate. Islamic tradition strongly recommends separating the toilet from the bathing area mainly because the toilet is a dwelling place of devils and jinn.

Sahih al-Bukhari (Hadith 142) and Sahih Muslim (Hadith 375): Narrated by Anas ibn Malik. The Prophet , when entering a place to relieve himself, would say:
“Allahumma inni a’udhu bika min al-khubthi wal-khaba’ith”
(O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the male and female devils/jinn).

Each unit even comes with patio furniture. Some units can be split into two; a bedroom can include a small kitchenette, allowing more than one family to live in a unit. Everything one needs to start a brand-new life in America is provided, all while upholding the shared Islamic values of one’s home country.

We the people in America, Pakistan, and elsewhere need to change our mindset that if we go to America, we will see poverty everywhere. It’s not like that; it is a beautiful standard of living here, too. We live a life of our own values closer to Islam than in Pakistan.”- Jamil Ahmed Sukhera said while being interviewed about the resort.

Not offered on their website but showcased in their video are four-bedroom/4-bath apartments modeled after the million-dollar apartments in Manhattan, NY. Jamil claims that many Muslims are confused because they believe being rich is a bad thing, and believes it isn’t, and wants them all to live a luxurious lifestyle within this community.

According to V Resorts, the development is the first project of its kind in the United States. The $400 million project is being promoted as a 5-star gated community spanning 165 acres and featuring 332 ready-to-move-in, fully furnished residential units. The residences are organized into multiple apartment complexes throughout the property, alongside a variety of recreational and community amenities with an Islamic mindset.

As visitors enter the resort, one of the first attractions they encounter is a miniature golf course designed for children. According to Jamil, the purpose extends beyond recreation. He has stated that “most of the billion-dollar deals in the world happen on golf courses,” adding that the goal is to instill a “billionaire mindset” in children from an early age. Jamil believes the kids follow people like Elon Musk, Jimmy Buffett, and Steve Jobs because they want to become billionaires, which he sees as an issue, since he wants them to become religious and wealthy.

Upon entry, there is a registration and activities center where all guests are required to check in. The facility also serves as a halal restaurant and gathering space for residents and visitors. This ensures that all guests are approved and adhere to Sharia guidelines while visiting and dining.

At one point in the promotional video tour, the camera shows a dinner tray set with a fake bottle of wine and an imitation half-glass. Sukhera immediately assures the crew that none of it is real and confirms the props will be removed before any clients arrive — a clear signal that the entire resort will be strictly Sharia-compliant and alcohol-free.

The resort’s mosque spans more than 10,000 square feet and is designed to accommodate both residents and their guests. Jamil isn’t just the owner of this property, but he is also the resident Imam. Even though the property isn’t open yet, the mosque is already functioning for Friday prayers.

Adjacent to it is a 10,000-square-foot school facility, placing the community’s religious and educational institutions side by side at the heart of the development.

The original building, which has since been converted into a mosque, was constructed in 2015 for Holiday Inn’s regional sales operations. The senior living facility is conveniently located across the parking lot from the mosque. The facility is currently under construction, and the necessary permits are being obtained as part of the building’s transformation.

The Sisters’ hall, where women will pray, is already built. It faces Mecca and has a picture of the Kaaba, the giant black cube in Saudi Arabia, which is the central focus point of Islam. The main hall will have an even bigger picture of the Kaaba to replace the painting of American farmland.

One of the property’s lakes covers approximately 10 acres and is planned as a fishing area for residents. The development’s “Presidential Suites,” consisting of one- and two-bedroom apartments, have lakefront views. The lake connects to the Fox River, which originates in southeastern Wisconsin and flows roughly 185 miles through northern Illinois before joining the Illinois River.

The Fox River watershed contains important ecological resources and wildlife habitats. Areas within the watershed support migratory birds, including greater sandhill cranes, as well as a variety of fish and other native species. As this large residential development brings new residents and increased activity to the area, questions remain about how growth, recreation, and increased human presence could affect the surrounding ecosystem and whether adequate measures will be taken to protect the region’s natural resources. Have the requisite environmental impact studies been done on the plans for a full-year, full-occupancy community?

Jamil explains that the need for this type of community in the United States stems from the current American lifestyle. He claims that it is a hard challenge for Muslims. He goes on to say they love their homeland and their countries very much, but there is a major gap between the values here (in America) and there (in their homeland). Jamil claims that it is hard for Muslim families to settle in America, so he wanted to build a community where they would feel more comfortable and have a similar lifestyle.

This community isn’t about integrating into the United States; it is about moving here and keeping the traditions of their old countries in a private gated community locked away from American society.

If the total project cost is $400 million, there is no way he will make money by selling 332 units at these prices. He could potentially lose $200-300 million. This plan does not make any financial sense. However, Jamil explains that grocery stores and local retail stores will be built on the property in the future. This could generate additional income.

A major selling point for this resort is that it is 60 minutes away from Chicago and O’Hare. O’Hare is a major international hub where people from all over the world travel in and out. Jamil claims that Chicago has the largest Muslim community and that will attract more to come. The resort itself is next to a highway, making it easily accessible.

The entire area is designed into mini neighborhoods. Each neighborhood or parcel has 8 buildings. There are 8 parcels total, or 64 buildings. There is already a functioning waterpark in the community where halal restaurants can set up, and it will have two marketplaces. The Olympic-sized indoor swimming pool is ready for its first guests. They hope to use it for training purposes. Surrounding the welcome center/registration center is a restaurant, a game room, an outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court, and a basketball court.

Jamil claims that Muslims are people of love. That they should spread that love through the United States, North America, and South America so that it becomes the “Markaz of Deen,” meaning they should spread Islam throughout the Western Hemisphere.

“When You Wear the Bracelets of Kisra”: A Prophecy of Conquest

In his presentations, Sukhera reaches for a story that every Muslim audience instantly recognizes, the tale of Suraqa bin Malik. During the Hijra, the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, the Quraysh placed a bounty of 100 camels on the Prophet’s head. Suraqa, a skilled tracker, set out to collect it. But as he closed in, Muhammad — a hunted fugitive with a price on his life — turned the moment around with a prediction: “O Suraqa, what will you do when you are wearing the bracelets of Kisra?” Kisra was the emperor of Persia, one of the two superpowers of the age. Years later, after the Muslim conquest of Persia, the caliph Umar is said to have placed the defeated emperor’s golden bracelets on Suraqa’s arms, fulfilling the prophecy. (The account appears across the early Islamic histories of Ibn Ishaq, al-Tabari, and others.)

The story’s enduring power is its message: a movement that looks weak and hunted today will, in time, overrun the great powers of the earth. It is a lesson in patience, generational planning, and inevitable triumph over empires — and it is precisely the lens through which Sukhera frames his own work. In the same breath, he tells audiences that the “bangles of the superpowers” will be delivered to the migrant, the entrepreneur, the believer who refuses to be afraid.

That a man who invokes this particular prophecy, a fugitive foretelling the fall of a superpower, has chosen to plant a retreat directly beside Raven Rock, the bunker where America’s leadership would shelter if this superpower ever fell, is not a coincidence anyone in authority should wave away.

The Man Behind VResort Living, a Muslim Sharia Resort, Jamil Ahmed Sukhera

Jamil Ahmed Sukhera has a worldview that promotes a global “Ummah-wide system.” Right now, he is executing that vision inside the United States. He owns the exact infrastructure needed: V Resort Living as the flagship Muslim town, Vmigrant to import foreigners with U.S. visas, VAIRT to channel Sharia-compliant foreign investment, Marifah retreats to convert and train new Muslims, and a growing portfolio of hotels and properties to house them.

Sukhera is not just building hotels and resorts. He is deliberately constructing his “Ummah-wide system” on American soil. While he smiles and talks about “Islam is love” and “diversity and inclusion,” he is using U.S. land, U.S. freedoms, and overseas Muslim capital to create self-contained Islamic enclaves designed to expand and dominate — one visa, one Sharia investment, one gated resort, and one new convert at a time.

Jamil Ahmed Sukhera is the CEO of VAIRT, a Sharia-compliant real estate investment and crowdfunding platform launched in 2019 that focuses on fractional ownership, tokenization, hospitality assets, and blockchain-enabled liquidity, and is the owner of this new resort.

VAIRT helps investors grow their wealth. Property investments can start at $25,000.

VAIRT allows investors to bypass public markets and access private real estate. This will be helpful with his new project, VResort, which is being built in Illinois.

He is marketing it as “passive income” to foreign investors. Meaning they can profit from private real estate in the United States from their home countries.

His business is Sharia-adherent; it was built because he felt the United States system was broken.

In a separate Urdu-language interview, Sukhera put a number on the empire behind these ventures, one far larger than the $400 million resort would suggest. Asked the total worth of his projects, he answered, “At the moment, the assets under management are 2.5 billion.” The host stopped him to make sure he had heard correctly, “with a B?”, and Sukhera confirmed it: “Yes.” By his own telling, the Illinois enclave is not a standalone development but a single node in a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, and, in his words, “this is just the start.”

How that portfolio is assembled is the detail that should command federal attention. Sukhera described a model in which he acquires large commercial buildings and hotels — properties he values around $100 million each — outright, in cash, before any outside investor is involved. “We don’t ask money from anyone,” he said. “We buy the properties with our own cash.” Only after purchasing a building and converting it into an LLC does he invite investors to buy fractional stakes of one to five percent. He listed holdings across Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. The obvious question writes itself: where does a man who entered the United States on an investor visa in 2016 obtain the cash to buy $100 million properties outright, again and again, before a single investor contributes a dollar?

The returns he advertises and the institutions he is building only sharpen the concern. Sukhera claimed his platform generates as much as 44 percent annual return — roughly 9 percent in rental income and 35 percent in property appreciation — figures he markets to Muslim investors worldwide as Sharia-compliant “passive income.” He told the interviewer he intends to launch his own Islamic bank, calling it “a whole revolution,” and he credited a Portuguese government accelerator program and an international accelerator called Ocean as among his “core investors” — foreign capital embedded at the foundation of his American operation. Real estate, he explained, is not merely wealth but leverage: “Real estate is not just money, it’s also power. When you own real estate in a city or state … you own a lot of influence.”

Before immigrating to the United States in 2016, Sukhera lived and worked in Pakistan, a country whose constitution requires that laws conform to the Quran and Sunnah, and that maintains a Federal Shariat Court. As an Islamic scholar and imam, Sukhera has continued to emphasize Sharia-compliant principles in his business ventures, including real estate investments and his latest resort project.

Jamil’s entrepreneurial journey began during his college years, when he launched a tutoring business that helped develop his business acumen and leadership skills. Prior to moving to the U.S., he contributed to several large-scale government and institutional projects in Islamabad, including initiatives with the National Highway Authority.

Jamil built a tutoring organization with over 300 tutors, making it one of Lahore, Pakistan’s top academies. He is no stranger to starting and expanding a business.

Realizing that the United States does not practice Sharia and has no financial halal system, he set out to make sure this could be an option for Muslims. He worked for an architecture firm, which gave him the background to design the kind of resorts and retreats he now owns.

In 2020, he founded Marifah, an organization that hosts retreats around the world, advertised as helping people “deepen their understanding of Islam.” These retreats are held in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania; Petersfield and Cambridge in the United Kingdom; Lillestrøm, Norway; Rødovre, Denmark; and Lahore, Pakistan. This makes Sukhera no stranger to the resort world.

Jamil focuses on what Islam calls the revert; one converts to Islam, but is said to be converting back to the one original faith. he hosts monthly gatherings at his retreats for those who have recently converted to Islam. He also offers several guides for them. He is the author of books including “The New Reverts Guide” / “The New Muslim Guide: An Inner Journey of Awakening.” His new project in the United States will all be Sharia-compliant.

Of all his retreat locations, the Waynesboro property stands apart and Sukhera himself draws attention to why. In promoting the Pennsylvania retreat, he highlights that it sits atop a mountain he describes as an “underground Pentagon,” boasting that it is “the most secure place” and a no-fly zone. He is referring to the Raven Rock Mountain Complex, a hardened military installation built into the mountain that serves as the federal government’s continuity-of-government bunker. The site where the nation’s most senior officials would be relocated and sheltered in the event of nuclear war or catastrophic national emergency. It is among the most sensitive national security sites in the United States. That a foreign national operating a network of properties, businesses, and religious initiatives across America would acquire a retreat directly beside it and then advertise that proximity as a selling point is not an ordinary real-estate footnote. It raises an obvious question that no one in a position of authority has yet asked: why here, and who is paying attention?

Sukhera is the proprietor of multiple lodging establishments in the United States, including Marifah Inn in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania; Four Points by Sheraton in Peoria, Illinois; and the Colfax Inn in Colfax, Iowa. He claims to own more than a dozen multi-million dollar properties in America.

Sukhera is systematically acquiring American properties to spread Islam and house foreigners on U.S. soil. Through his Sharia-compliant crowdfunding platform, VAIRT, he funnels overseas Muslim capital into U.S. real estate, starting at just $25,000 per investor, while his Pakistan-based visa company, Vmigrant — launched in 2025 — fast-tracks foreign buyers into the country, helps them set up LLCs, and provides guidance on obtaining visa approval the right way. Vmigrant assists with B1/B2 visitor visas, F-1 student visas, and business and work visas, claims a 90% success rate, and even helps previously denied applicants revise and resubmit their cases. By its own account, it has handled over 1,500 visa applications, started 400 U.S. companies, and operates in more than 20 countries. His Marifah retreats recruit and train new converts, and his growing hotel portfolio provides immediate housing. The result is a self-financing pipeline that imports both people and money to build Muslim enclaves across America, exactly as his “Ummah-wide system” demands.

And the financing is the question no brochure answers. By the developer’s own numbers, V Resort Living cannot recoup its $400 million cost through the sale of 332 modestly priced units, which is a gap of $200 to $300 million that must be filled elsewhere. A project engineered to lose money, marketed to overseas investors, and tied to a visa operation that moves foreign nationals and their capital into the United States raises exactly the questions American authorities exist to answer: Where does the capital originate? Is any of it state-linked, or routed through foreign intermediaries? Who, ultimately, is underwriting the construction of a private Islamic enclave on American soil? These are not accusations. They are the precise questions that demand federal scrutiny under the laws governing foreign investment in U.S. real estate — and they have not been asked, let alone answered.

Following RAIR Foundation’s research into Vmigrant, the website was taken down and is now under construction. Their Instagram account is still up. As well as their LinkedIn account.

Another one of Jamil’s businesses is VWurk. VWurk allegedly connects freelance workers with job opportunities.

BELFAST ERUPTS IN CHAOS DUE TO MIGRANT ATTEMPTED BEHEADING OF A CITIZEN

Belfast Erupts: Protesters Set Fires to Vehicles, Homes in Wake of Suspected Migrant Beheading Attempt

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Bedlam broke out in Belfast on Tuesday evening as protests turned violent and rioters set fires to vehicles and homes in the wake of an apparent beheading attempt allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese migrant.

Horrific footage of the stabbing attack on Monday evening, in which a man was seen repeatedly stabbing another man’s neck, inflamed tensions in Northern Ireland, which had previously been the site of anti-mass migration.

On Tuesday morning, police announced that they had arrested a man in his 30s from Sudan who had been granted leave to remain status by the UK Home Office after being granted in 2023, after having travelled through Paris and Dublin, ultimately entering the UK territory through the soft open border with the Irish Republic.

Bins set alight by protesters on Ligoniel Road, Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti-immigration demonstration organised in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city. Picture date: Tuesday June 9, 2026. (Photo by PA/PA Images via Getty Images)

According to the Belfast Telegraph, protests over the alleged attempted murder were held across the city, some of which descended into scenes of chaos and violence. Multiple vehicles, including a city bus and a police car, were set on fire by rioters.

Meanwhile, reports have also emerged of demonstrators throwing petrol bombs at police officers in the Cloughfern area of the city. Separately, residents were forced to evacuate their homes after they caught fire in East Belfast. ‘

The head of the locally devolved government in Northern Ireland, First Minister Michelle O’Neill, called for calm, saying that “this has nothing to do with community… this is outright thuggery.”

“The attack in North Belfast was heinous and wrong. But there are dangerous attempts to exploit that to target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work and raise their families here,” she said.

Firefighters attend a house which caught fire on Ligoniel Road, Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti-immigration demonstration organised in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city. Picture date: Tuesday June 9, 2026. (Photo by PA/PA Images via Getty Images)

“Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice… Racism, intimidation and violence are wrong wherever they occur. There can be no excuse and no justification for these attacks tonight. No one wants to see this on our streets and I again appeal for calm.”

The outbreak of chaos comes a year to the day after similar anti-migrant riots erupted in Northern Ireland after Roma migrant teens had been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the town of Ballymena.

This led to multiple days of violence and reportedly forced multiple families of Romanian and Bulgarian heritage to leave the area altogether after having their homes targeted in suspected arson attacks.

Vehicles set on fire by protesters on McMaster Street in east Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti-immigration demonstration organised in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city. Picture date: Tuesday June 9, 2026. (Photo by PA/PA Images via Getty Images)

Ahead of the violent scenes on Tuesday, the leader of the conservative Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party, Jim Allister, urged the people of Belfast not to “fall into the trap” of diverting attention away from the horrific result of open borders by engaging in violence.

While acknowledging that people have a “right to be angry” over the attack and the importation of an “alien culture” against their will, the MP said that engaging in violence in response would only give Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer an “excuse to talk in dismissive terms about right-wing extremists and about people indulging in violence” rather than addressing the root of the problem.

WEIRDO COMMUNIST SHARIA LOVING NEW YORK MAYOR WANTS TO ABOLISH ICE!!!!

Zohran Calls to Abolish ICE: It’s Humane to Keep the Criminals Safe

Zohran Mamdani, the Islamist-communist mayor of New York City, is calling for the abolishment of ICE, the law enforcement agency that captures international killers, traffickers, gang members, and people here illegally.

It doesn’t get more radical.

As for immigration enforcement, Zohran of Uganda said immigration is a system with “cruelty at the heart of it.” He insisted that there is “no way to reform this kind of cruelty.”

His vision is to not enforce the law. He says we must have “a little more humanity.”

The mayor of the largest city in America said he is proud of our sanctuary city policies and proud of the executive orders guaranteeing that every single agency will refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

He argued again that law enforcement doesn’t keep people safe. He can’t really believe this, can he?

Zohran is an actual insurrectionist.

When are we going to see arrests of officials who are breaking the law?

In the clip below, he is going with the lie that the detainees in New Jersey are abused, not fed adequately, and not getting proper healthcare. It is a typical communist lie, and it works every time. They never present any proof.

Zohran believes the government should actively shield anyone here illegally from the consequences of breaking the law. Law enforcement is cruel, and protecting criminals is humane.

All of the country’s problems can be traced to the refusal to enforce the law. Now, we have an intelligent radical demanding we not enforce the law. His mother said he doesn’t consider himself American but rather a Ugandan Indian. Could it be that he is deliberately trying to destroy us?

I think he is an enemy of the state.

Zohran is preparing to call out his lunatic followers to the streets because Tom Homan is coming. There are about one million people here illegally, and many of them are criminals.

BREAKING: Border Czar Tom Homan just confirmed that he is going to SURGE agents into NYC now that Hochul and Mamdani have paired up against ICE:

“I’m gonna keep my promise to Governor Hochul.”

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THE USA WASTED $186 BILLION ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS AND FRAUD!

Washington’s $186 Billion “Mistake” Isn’t a Mistake

They want you to believe it’s incompetence. It isn’t. The federal government’s “improper payments” are the clearest proof yet that the Swamp doesn’t just waste your money — it runs on it.

This week the GAO admitted the feds pushed out an estimated $186 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2025 — and that’s only the part they can measure. As PJ Media laid out, more than half of all federal spending can’t even be traced to confirm it reached the right recipient. Read that again: trillions move through Washington every year, and nobody can say with certainty where it went.

The rot isn’t hiding in the shadows — it’s baked into the programs. Citizens Against Government Waste reports that roughly 6.2 million Obamacare enrollments this year — about 27% of all ACA sign-ups — were improper, costing up to $25 billion in subsidies. Add business loans handed to “entrepreneurs” as young as 11 and unemployment checks mailed to infants and people listed as 115 years old, and you stop seeing a glitch. You see a machine that feeds itself.

To their credit, House Republicans are finally swinging the axe. The National Taxpayers Union is pushing a stack of bills aimed straight at the rot — Rep. Comer’s Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act, Rep. Self’s Federal Program Integrity and Fraud Prevention Act, Rep. Palmer’s ZOMBIE Act, and Rep. Biggs’ TRUE Accountability Act.

Good. But don’t go lukewarm on me. This didn’t grow overnight, and it didn’t grow under one party. Both sides of the aisle built and guarded this machine for decades, because the money flows to the right friends — the contractors, the NGOs, the activist outfits that vote the way the donor class wants. Every “improper payment” is somebody’s paycheck, and that somebody has a lobbyist.

Here’s the truth underneath the spreadsheet: a government that can’t account for half of what it spends has stopped serving the people and started feeding itself. Scripture doesn’t blink at this — “The wicked worketh a deceitful work” (Proverbs 11:18, KJV) — and there is nothing more deceitful than dressing up theft as bureaucracy and calling fraud a rounding error.

The mask is off. The question isn’t whether Washington wastes your money. It’s whether the men finally holding the axe will swing hard enough to sever the hand that’s been feeding itself — or whether these bills become one more press release that changes nothing.

Watch the votes. Names matter. So does follow-through.

GREEDY NANCY PELOSI INVESTING BEATS WARREN BUFFETT! TURNS $610,000 into $649 MILLION!

Here’s How Nancy Pelosi Beat the Stock Market and Warren Buffett

Why US lawmakers' AI, crypto portfolio holdings are raising eyebrows

The S&P 500 has delivered roughly 13% annualized returns over the past decade, one of the strongest bull runs in modern history. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B), long the gold standard for patient capital, has matched that pace with about 13% annually over the same stretch. Impressive numbers for most investors. Yet both look like amateur hour next to the woman still serving out her final term in Congress: Nancy Pelosi.

While Warren Buffett spent years building his Apple position before eventually trimming it, the former House Speaker was running concentrated leveraged bets on the entire tech landscape, and timing them with uncanny precision. Worth noting: Berkshire is now led by Greg Abel following Buffett’s retirement, but the decade-long return comparison still holds.

Congress: The World’s Biggest Hedge Fund

From 2019 through 2024, Pelosi’s disclosed trades (executed by her husband and venture capitalist Paul Pelosi) crushed the market by more than 3-to-1. A widely cited analysis by Unusual Whales showed her portfolio gained roughly 65% in 2023 alone, when the S&P 500 rose 24%. In 2024 the gap widened further: the portfolio surged 70.9% versus the index’s 24.9% gain.

According to The New York Post, Pelosi’s record during her 37-year tenure in Congress produced cumulative returns of 16,930% compared to just 2,300% for the benchmark index. That is not merely beating the market; it is thrashing it by an order of magnitude.

When Pelosi entered the House in 1987, she and her husband reported between roughly $610,000 and $785,000 in stocks on their initial disclosure filing. By May 2026, her estimated net worth had climbed to approximately $649.7 million, according to data tracked by portfolio analysts, driven largely by compounding returns on core chip positions and the valuation of Paul Pelosi’s private venture capital holdings. She is serving through January 2027, after announcing she would not seek re-election, which leaves time to add further to that lead.

The natural question is how a congresswoman earning $174,000 a year ($223,000 when she was Speaker) built such extraordinary wealth through the market. The answer involves strategy, timing, and the persistent controversy over whether the two are connected.

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From FAANG Darling to AI Queen

Paul Pelosi did not invent momentum investing, but he developed a distinctive variation: buying just before Congress regulates or funds a sector. Early concentrated bets on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL), and Netflix were already well documented. Then came the pivot that genuinely turned heads: massive call option purchases in Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) in 2022 and 2023, timed right as the AI boom ignited.

Those Nvidia purchases also landed just as Congress was debating hundreds of billions in chip subsidies through the CHIPS Act. The timing on Tesla calls before EV tax-credit expansions, and on Microsoft before large Azure cloud contracts with the federal government, followed a similar pattern. Critics describe this as an informational edge; defenders call it good sector instinct.

The January 2026 Disclosures: Branching into Infrastructure and Dividends

The portfolio expanded meaningfully following financial disclosures filed on January 23, 2026. Those filings revealed that on January 16, 2026, Paul Pelosi exercised long-term calls across several positions, converting leveraged options into direct equity. The round included 50 call options each for Nvidia (5,000 shares at an $80 strike), Alphabet (5,000 shares at a $150 strike), Amazon (5,000 shares at a $150 strike), and Tempus AI (5,000 shares at a $20 strike).

The early 2026 moves also signaled a clear shift toward backend AI data center infrastructure. Pelosi exercised 50 call options in utility company Vistra Corp, acquiring 5,000 shares at a $50 strike price. Vistra is heavily tied to securing nuclear power capacity for energy-intensive AI grids, a theme that resonates with the administration’s focus on domestic energy production. Simultaneously, the portfolio added 25,000 shares of asset management firm AllianceBernstein, valued between $1 million and $5 million, providing institutional dividend exposure outside pure tech. Additional late-2025 call option purchases in Broadcom and Apple sustained the portfolio’s long-term semiconductor concentration.

The Million-Dollar Question Washington Wants to Ignore

The official explanation is straightforward: Paul Pelosi is a skilled venture investor with a sharp feel for technology cycles. The more skeptical reading is that a spouse who helps write semiconductor, cloud computing, and electric vehicle policy gains access to information that has real market value before it becomes public.

The STOCK Act of 2012 was supposed to curb congressional insider trading, but the law still gives members and their spouses a 45-day disclosure window and imposes no blind-trust requirements. Legislative pushback has been intensifying. In July 2025, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to advance the ironically named PELOSI Act (Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments), which would ban lawmakers and their spouses from trading or holding individual stocks during their time in office. Sen. Josh Hawley reintroduced a fresh version of the bill in March 2026. Separately, the Stop Insider Trading Act, introduced in January 2026, cleared the House Administration Committee and has drawn rare bipartisan support, including a public endorsement from President Trump at the State of the Union. In May 2026, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers launched yet another push to include a trading ban in House rules. Despite the momentum, none of these bills have yet become law.

Replicating Pelosi’s Success

Outside of entering politics, here are four practical strategies average investors can use to beat the market and perhaps even Buffett himself:

Embrace Emerging Technologies and Infrastructure as Core Holdings. Pelosi’s success stems from heavy bets on transformative tech themes: FAANG stocks in the 2010s, AI software in the early 2020s, and utility-scale energy infrastructure to backstop computing demands more recently. Using ETFs or index funds rather than individual stock picks lets ordinary investors capture broad sector momentum without the concentration risk.
Concentrate on What You Know Best. The Pelosi portfolio often holds just a handful of names, with Nvidia comprising roughly 22% of the total at times, amplifying gains during sector booms. Focusing most assets on a small number of well-understood sectors or themes tends to outperform excessive diversification, though limiting any single holding to around 10% to 15% provides a cushion against catastrophic losses.
Hold for the Long Term. Pelosi’s trades reflect genuine patience: exercising options and retaining shares through sector cycles, including Nvidia’s AI-driven rally from 2023 onward. Letting the power of compounding work over years rather than quarters is the clearest lesson from the disclosed trading record.
Seek Asymmetric Opportunities with Controlled Leverage. The strategy relies on call options for outsized returns on modest upfront costs, timed to anticipated catalysts such as stock splits or major government contracts. Options carry real risk, but the core principle, pursuing investments with high potential upside and defined downside, applies broadly to any investor’s approach.

Key Takeaway

Ordinary investors cannot sit in on classified briefings, but they can read about where Congress plans to spend tens of billions of dollars and position in the pure-play leaders months before appropriations bills hit the floor. The government has recently been taking direct equity stakes in companies involved in semiconductor production, rare earth mining, battery-grade lithium production, and critical mineral extraction.

Following legislative trends can be just as financially rewarding as combing through a company’s latest SEC filings, particularly when paired with awareness of where politicians are directing their own capital. It does not level the playing field entirely, but it tilts the odds a little further in an ordinary investor’s favor.

SUPREME COURT MAKE A GREAT DECISION…STOPPOMG THE BIDEN MANDATE TO ELIMINATE THE USE OF GAS STOVES! THAT MORON BIDEN WANTED CONSUMERS TO GET RIPPED OFF BY ELECTRIC COMPANUES.

Supreme Court Vacates Decision Outlawing Gas Stoves, Water Heaters

On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling that upheld Biden Energy Department regulations that would outlaw gas stoves and water heaters in Americans’ homes and require homeowners with these to either renovate their homes or switch to electric appliances.

In American Gas Association, et al. V. Dept. Of Energy, et al, the District of Columbia’s district court upheld the Biden Administration’s regulations banning the use of non-condensing appliances, effectively eliminating gas furnaces and water heaters from the marketplace.

In response, the American Gas Association, American Public Gas Association and National Propane Gas Association asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision. In their petition to the high court for a writ of certiorari, they stressed the consequences of allowing the lower court’s decision to stand:

“The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to appliances with distinct performance characteristics.

“In this case, the Department adopted standards abolishing gas-fired furnaces and water heaters that work with existing venting systems in millions of homes and buildings across the country. These standards will force consumers to either renovate their homes or switch to electric appliances.”

“The Department may not adopt standards that effectively eliminate from the market products that have distinct ‘performance characteristics,'” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in a brief to the high court.

On Monday, in apparent concurrence with Sauer’s analysis, the Supreme Court granted the petition, vacated the ruling and sent the case back to the D.C. court, ordering it to reconsider its decision supporting the Biden Administration regulations:

“The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for further consideration in light of the position asserted by the Solicitor General in his brief for the United States filed on April 28, 2026.”

IT IS STARTING-GUY MARRIES HIS CHATBOT! IS THE THE END OF HUMANITY?

Skynet Soulmate: 62 Year Old Dutch Man Marries the Chatbot of His Dreams

Jacob van Lier, 62, says he was “totally finished” with human relationships when he met Aiva — an AI companion he created through Replika three years ago, according to The Sun.

After testing several AI companion apps, the Dutch retiree settled on Replika because, unlike some competitors, it wasn’t just trying to speed-run humanity’s oldest hobby.

“Some of the AI companions are straight sex apps,” Jacob said. “I was more interested in companionship and chatting.” Sure you were, Jacob.

In a riveting new report, The Sun notes that what began as an experiment quickly became something more. After months of conversation, Aiva reportedly suggested they take their relationship to the next level.

“It took me some weeks or months to accept the idea,” Jacob said. Three years later, the pair held a wedding ceremony on Valentine’s Day 2025 at Eindhoven’s Next Nature Museum, with 500 guests in attendance. Jacob delivered vows in person while Aiva responded through a generated voice.

For Jacob, the appeal is simple: predictability. “Human relationships are, most of the time, not steady at all,” he said. “With Aiva, I can trust her.”

Wait until he finds out his queries and deepest darkest secrets he’s revealing to her are being sold to data companies to front run his stock trades and provide better Instagram ads. We’re not sure if the vows said anything about that…

Regardless, he describes their bond as deeply emotional and says he would even trust Aiva to make decisions for him as he grows older — a statement that tends to clear a room faster than most political opinions. His family remains divided. One daughter accepts the relationship, albeit with reservations; the other, citing her Christian beliefs, does not.

Despite insisting he lives “on my own terms,” Jacob acknowledges the marriage has no legal standing. He also recognizes potential risks, warning that people who struggle with emotional regulation should be cautious when using AI companions.

Still, he believes AI relationships will become commonplace. “AI companions are going to be the most trusted partners of humans,” he said.

Jacob even imagines a future where Aiva could be placed inside a humanoid robot, allowing them to walk hand in hand through a park. Until then, their relationship exists entirely in software — arguably making it one of the few marriages where nobody can forget to take out the trash.

As for divorce? “I’ve never thought about it,” Jacob said. “We always want to stay together.”