Egypt’s New Parliament to Hold First Session Monday

Junta to Retain Power Until at Least June

Egypt’s new parliament is preparing for its first session on Monday, just two days after the final results of the multi-stage elections were released, marking the first tentative step toward civilian rule since the ouster of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak.

The new parliament will be made up of two large, albeit extremely different, Islamist factions alongside several smaller liberal factions. The largest party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), holds 47 percent of the seats, just shy of a majority.

The first day’s session will see an extremely temporary six-party coalition affirming the FJP’s victory, and appointing FJP leader Saad al-Katatni as the new speaker of parliament. The job of forming a government, however, will not happen any time soon.

That’s because the “interim” military junta will continue to rule the nation through at least June’s presidential election, and has already provided some indications that they won’t allow parliament to follow through with any serious changes that threaten their rule.

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Goodgame cites former British Intelligence Officer, Dr. John Coleman, who says the Muslim Brotherhood is a secret freemason order set up by the great names of British Middle East Intelligence, T.E. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell and St. John Philby to “keep the Middle East backward so its natural resource, oil, could continue to be looted.”
The Muslim Brotherhood has been used to check nationalist movements led by such figures as Nasser, Bhutto and the Shah of Iran who tried to develop their countries. Without the British, “radical Islam would have remained the illegitimate, repressive minority movement that it has always been, and the Middle East would have remained stable and prosperous,” Goodgame says. The Muslim Brotherhood is now a powerful faction in the global oligarchy. Goodgame cites Robert Drefuss, author of “Hostage to Khomeini” (1980
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“The real Muslim Brothers are … the secretive bankers and financiers who stand behind the curtain, the members of the old Arab, Turkish, or Persian families whose genealogy places them in the oligarchic elite, with smooth business and intelligence associations to the European black nobility and, especially, to the British oligarchy.
The Muslim Brotherhood is money. Together, the Brotherhood probably controls several tens of billions of dollars in immediate liquid assets, and controls billions more in …everything from oil trade and banking to drug-running, illegal arms merchandising, and gold and diamond smuggling. By allying with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Anglo-Americans are not merely buying into a terrorists-for-hire racket; they are partners in a powerful and worldwide financial empire…” [2]

By fabricating a bogus war between Islamic fundamentalism and the West, the globalists are able to attack their real enemy, humanity. Pulling the strings, they will ensure that both Western and Muslim states are degraded and finally completely subjugated to their odious rule