Is this an attempt to head off a populist candidate like Ron Paul?

This makes sense. Create a third party that pretends to be concerned about what is happening to the country. Fill it with phony change agents like Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Jeb Bush, etc. who say all the right things, but are more controlled by the elites and the media than the regulars in the two criminal parties we have today. This would blunt folks like Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Bob Barr and others like them, who the elites fear, by stealing their message and rallying voter support drawing on public anger and dissatisfaction, but in a dishonest way. The real change agents will be left on the sidelines, ostracized by the media and with no financial backing.
I should have been a detective...



Rothschild Dynasty Slams Obama; Calls for Centrist Movement in U.S.

However, note that Mrs. Rothschild denounced not just Obama but “both parties.” Her rhetoric precisely reflects ongoing high-level calls in the media monopoly for a “centrist” rebellion against both “the left” and “the right”:

We need a movement of the militant middle; millions of voters who support the sensible policies from both parties. This would give Democrats political cover to stand up to Obama, Pelosi and Reid; and Republicans the backbone to acknowledge that the country must progress in order to be strong.

Here is what’s happening: Recognizing growing widespread disgust with both major parties, the elite big money forces seem to be laying the groundwork to usher in a new “centrist” party—a “controlled opposition” under their domination—to block the rise of any genuine populist third party challenging their power. The war-profiteering *****cratic elites want to be assured that—in the face of growing opposition from Americans on both the “left” and the “right”—budgetbusting internationalist policies promoting U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East and across the globe—in the name of what is now being touted as American “national greatness”—will be preserved.

In fact, the “national greatness” concept is just a patriotic-sounding cover name for what many call the New World Order.

Note, too, that although both “liberal Democrats” and “conservative Republicans” have done big money’s bidding for a century, a new “centrist” force—orchestrated by the major media (owned by the financial aristocracy)—would shatter the existing traditional local, state and federal political machines of the major parties which are closely tied to their own respective constituencies (small business, farmers, public employees, minorities, factory workers, etc). Divorced from grassroots demands, the new “centrist” mechanism would answer only to the major media controllers who conjured up the “centrist” party in the first place.

Link:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/rothschild_dynasty_247.html