LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - CALIPHATE TERMINATOR

Lawrence was the leader of the Arab revolt against the Ottomans, thus partly responsible for dismantling the Ottoman Empire, hence, the Caliphate.

T.E. Lawrence (mounted near the banner), Bedouin raiders form for battle during the Arab revolt of World War I.

T.E. Lawrence (left) with Lowell Thomas near Aqaba in Palestine in the autumn of 1917.

Lawrence house in England. He was so much Arabized that he was a misfit in English society.

Purportedly, Lawrence died from a motorcycle accident he was riding.

OLD TAIPING

FGV HISAP (CURUT) DARAH PENEROKA

Gambar eksekutif kanan Fucking Global Vultures (FGV) group hisap curut. 

Gambar penghisap cerut yang menjadi viral

Dalam masa dua hari harga sahamnya jatuh hampir enam peratus kepada RM1.53.

Ini adalah antara tahap paling rendah dideritai FGV sejak disenaraikan di Bursa Malaysia pada 28 Jun, 2012.

Pada kadar harga RM1.53 itu, nilai saham FGV telah merudum tiga kali ganda daripada harga tawaran awam permulaan (IPO) RM4.55 pada tahun 2012.

Harga saham GFV menrudum

Daripada keuntungan sebanyak RM980 juta pada tahun 2013, pencapaiannya merosot kepada RM306 juta (2014), RM117 juta (2015) dan rugi RM98 juta sehingga suku ketiga tahun ini.

Margin keuntungan merosot daripada 7.8% pada tahun 2013 kepada 1.9% (2014), 0.7% (2015) dan -0.8% sehingga suku ketiga tahun ini.

Dividen yang memuncak pada kadar 16 sen sesaham pada tahun 2013 merudum kepada hanya 4 sen tahun lalu. 

FGV adalah syarikat GLC kedua yang diilhamkan oleh Perdana Menteri merangkap Menteri Kewangan, (Datuk Seri I Mappadulung Daeng Mattimung Karaeng Sandrobone Sultan Abdul Jalil) Mohd Najib Abdul Razak, yang dalam krisis. Yang pertama ialah 1MDB.

(sedutan dari The Scribe)

ONN JAAFAR KICKED UMNO ON THE ARSE

Onn Jaafar was a founder member of UMNO. He was very principled man. If my facts are correct, he disagreed with the formation of a tripartite Alliance (Perikatan) party  (UMNO, MCA, and MIC) instead wanted UMNO to stand by itself. 

He kicked off UMNO and became the first person to resign from UMNO. He formed Parti Negara in 1954 but the party lost to Perikatan in the 1957 national election.

Onn Jaafar was (almost) 60 years ahead of time of what to become of UMNO. Thus, he has cleared his name from the shit. 

Datuk Panglima Bukit Gantang, vice-president of UMNO and Menteri Besar of Perak with Onn during a tour of Perak, 1951.

NO THANKS FOR THE MESS NAJIB

Najib's stupidity is that he underestimated the power of the internet. News spread within seconds  and damage control becomes difficult. During snail mail age, he could hide misdeeds and the skeletons in the closet. Judging by his masterly daring do to raid billions of the nation's coffer, he must have been bilking this country  during 40 years in politics. 

Now the game is up. The billions he swindled into his bank account is general knowledge for all and sundry, proven to last sen by DOJ. He has become an international pariah. The country is in shame especially when we are deemed paralysed to bring him to justice. Do we owe a favour from The U.S?

The ensuing mess he has done to the country and rakyat are very damaging both in the short and long term. Still in denial mode, he and many UMNO goons have tied themselves tight at the neck by their own rope. 

As things are getting desperate for survival, Najib's measures are becoming draconian and dictatorial. The ship is sinking and he will be first to jump ship.

To clear all the mess Najib created, (a blessing in disguise) the rakyat must take the opportunity to hang all them goons high at one go. This presents   an opportune moment and a way out for the country to save its honour and start afresh on a strong footing.

The masses want Najib to get lost.

Can Najib answer this without invoking God’s name or some non-existent Arab Prince?

Division Chief on payroll (makan dedak) 

An UMNO Division Chief, Zaharin Mod Yasin from Bandar Tun Razak district in KL, has openly acknowledged on Facebook how Najib personally handed him so many fat cheques that he can’t remember how many he received or presumably how much they added up to!

Posting on his publicly accessible page just a few days ago on December 14th, Zaharain even included photographs of two of these cheques.

Both are signed with the by now very familiar signature of the Prime Minister and are for the princely sum of RM200,000 (cUS$70,000). 

(extracted from various sources)

AMBITIOUS MEN MAHATHIR TIMES

While Mahathir was on overdrive to run the country, there were pretenders, revellers, dreamers, plotters, shadow players, backstabbing, and jostling for influence/voters overtly and covertly. 

Mahathir, being tolerant of fools gave them plenty of rope to hang themselves eventually. How they plotted against each other and against Mahathir.

What you make of them? You be the judge. 

The country and rakyat are at their worst situation being swindled by Najib by the billions.

EARLY COINS OF ISLAMIC EMPIRES

The minting of coins began with the Umayyad caliphs. At first, as we have seen, they were based on Persian or Byzantine models, and these often, bear figural designs that are alien to Islamic ways of thought. Later coins tend to have inscriptions only; but that soon became an art form in itself.

From Khurasan, a silver dirham (right) of the Umayyid governor 'Abdullah ibn Khazim, a close copy of a Sasanid coin.

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Two coins from later Islamic Spain. Left: a golden dinar of 'And al-Mu'min (524-58/1130-63), first of the Alomobad 'caliphs'. The Almobads were a Berber people who took over Morocco in the early VI/12th century. In 550/1145 'And al-Mu'min established a kingdom in Spain with its capital at Seville. Right: a silver dirham from the last days of the Kingdom of Granada, shortly before 898/1492. The rest of Spain had fallen to the Reconquista two centuries before. Only a combination of diplomacy and luck allowed Granada to survive for so long.