Republicans and Democrats are the two mainstream political parties but many Americans are getting tired of just those choices. Too many Americans believe the left and the right are one in the same, so is it the perfect time for a third political party to emerge? Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico, went from GOP hopeful to the presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party. He joins us for more on why he switched parties leading up to Election Day.

Massive activist effort to shine spotlight on secretive global elite.

Alex Jones’ call for Infowarriors to ‘Occupy Bilderberg’ during their upcoming meeting in Chantilly Virginia is gathering steam, with activists heeding the call to protest the clandestine annual confab involving the globe’s top powerbrokers.

It is now confirmed that the Bilderberg Group will hold their 2012 conference at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles hotel in Chantilly, Virginia from May 31st to June 3rd.

The Bilderbergers hate the spotlight. It’s only in recent years that the media has even acknowledged their existence and the group itself, comprising some 120 influential power brokers in the fields of business, politics, media, academia and banking, has been forced to set up a website and issue a yearly press release.

This is thanks to the fact that ever increasing numbers of protesters are gathering outside wherever Bilderberg meets to demonstrate against the elitist confab’s role in secretly steering world events outside the purview of democratically elected governments.

Following Jones’ call to occupy Bilderberg, the grass roots activist community has gone into overdrive. A detailed Facebook page has been set up along with a website in addition to numerous other alternative media websites who are getting on board with the event.

We urge as many people as possible to travel to Virginia at the end of the month to do what the maionstream media habitually fails to accomplish – speaking truth to power and demanding answers as to why Bilderberg attendees think they can break their own country’s laws, such as the Logan Actin America and its equivalents elsewhere, by meeting secretly with foreign agents while serving in public office.

As we have exhaustively documented, there are numerous examples to illustrate the fact that Bilderberg is not merely a “talking shop” as some in the corporate press frame it, but a venue where consensus is formed for the implementation of both national and geopolitical policies.

In 2009, Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon bragged about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg Group.

“A meeting in June in Europe of the Bilderberg Group- an informal club of leading politicians, businessmen and thinkers chaired by Mr. Davignon- could also ‘improve understanding’ on future action, in the same way it helped create the Euro in the 1990s, he said,” reported the EU Observer in March 2009.

The foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950’s. Bilderberg’s own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency was formulated by Bilderberg in 1955.

As we first reported in 2003, a BBC investigative team were allowed to access Bilderberg files which confirmed that the EU and the Euro were the brainchild of Bilderberg.

In spring 2002, when war hawks in the Bush administration were pushing for a summer invasion of Iraq, Bilderbergers expressed their desire for a delay and the attack was not launched until March the following year.

In 2006, journalists who got leaked information from inside Bilderberg predicted that the U.S. housing market would be allowed to soarbefore the bubble was cruelly popped, which is exactly what transpired.

In June 2008, we learned that Bilderberg were creating the conditions for a financial calamity, which is exactly what began a few months later with the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Bilderberg has habitually flexed its muscles in establishing its role as kingmaker. The organization routinely selects presidential candidates as well as running mates and prime ministers.

Despite widespread expectation that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be announced as the first European Union President, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, was picked for the role just days after he attended a Bilderberg Group dinner meeting.

Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were both groomed by the secretive organization in the early 1990’s before rising to prominence.

Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden was selected by Bilderberg luminary James A. Johnson, and John Kerry’s 2004 running mate John Edwards was also anointed by the group after he gave a glowing speech at the conference in 2004.

Despite the fact that the establishment media, many titans of which are Bilderberg members, routinely plays down the weight of the group’s influence on world affairs, in a 2010 radio interviewformer NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes admitted that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers.

Although the topics on the agenda are usually disclosed during the course of the Bilderberg meeting, we already know that the group will have an influence on picking Mitt Romney’s running mate for the U.S. presidential election, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio being the firm favorite.

Rubio recently flaunted his “foreign policy chops” during a Brookings Institution speech in which he called for the U.S. to attack Syria and Iran.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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Belgian police have arrested almost 500 peace activists outside the NATO HQ in Brussels. Protesters attempted to storm the building, but were met with a heavy-handed response from hundreds of officers. Demonstrators say the march was called to protest NATO’s hawkish intervention policies. For more on this RT talks to one of the activists who actually took part. Hans Lammerant, a spokesman for ‘NATO Game Over’, joins us now from Brussels.

It seemsthe UK is a little behind when it comes to fulfilling its duty to protect itscitizens. In the US the Patriot Act was passed six weeks after the 9/11 attacks,although it was and still is highly controversial act, the UK is now proposinga similar bill. If the law passes it will give the British government the powerto monitor all digital data of its citizens. Internet companies will berequired to install special hardware to track all online activity. Jake Diliberto,US Marine and RT blogger, joins us to talk about this contentious move by the British government.

On April 10, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he will implement a peace plan in his war-torn country. The UN-supervised cease fire will mean that al-Assad will withdraw troops from cities around Syria and provide humanitarian aid. Many believe the anti-government rebels will not respond to the peace efforts due to outside influence on the rebel group. So will the efforts to stop the bloodshed work? Ahmad Fathi, a Middle Eastern expert, joins us with his take.

New York City police are investigating death threats made against staff through the phone and on twitter. This after officers forcibly arrested more than 70 people during an Occupy Wall Street protest. Since the start of the movement, nationwide protests have faced numerous cases of police brutality with batons and tear gas often used to disperse crowds. As the movement continues, so too does Washington’s desire to silence the American public, as RT’s Marina Portnaya explains.

Kony 2012, hyped on the backs of celebrities and do-gooders, is revealed for what it is– a propaganda salvo for a continent wide invasion of Africa. Yes, the mantra War is Peace is once again drumming U.S. soldiers into further conflict.

Research makes clear that KONY is a sophisticated psy-op to muster popular support for what is, in reality, nothing more than a geostrategic positioning vis-a-vis China for oil and mineral resources, as well as an effort to legitimize the U.S. military’s AFRICOM unit in the region through newly-branded “humanitarian” interventions.

It is not only War in the name of “Peace,” but an attempt to empower the International Criminal Courtunder the influence of NGOs and other related globalist corporate interests.

Nobel Peace Prize “winner” Barack Obama has already deployed 100 special forces troops to the central African region back in October 2011, and a resolution in Congress– on the heels of KONY 2012′s viral views of at lest 80 million– seeks to send more forces there for an all out invasion on the pretext of hunting down a shadowy warlord with less blood on his hands than an average African despot.

Top celebrities vying for greater power including CFR member and UN goodwill ambassadorAngelina Jolie, actor George Clooney, media baroness Oprah Winfrey, as well as Africa-obsessed Bill Gates and Bono, have all come out in front of this issue.

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All through the primaries Ron Paul has been surrounded by thousands of people at almost every state he has visited. Now one less person will be around Ron Paul. NBC recently withdrew their embedded reporter who was on the Ron Paul campaign trail. The Texas Congressman has gained extensive attention when it comes to his anti-war stance and being pro-constitution. Paul has expressed his suspicion about voter fraud or votes not being counted because his numbers don’t coincide with the numbers at the polls. So are all Ron Paul’s votes being counted? Mary Willison, volunteer organizer and Ron Paul supporter, joins us for more.

The US unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent for January — naturally it was a good photo opportunity for US president Barack Obama to say the economy is improving. Really? In fact, a large chunk of those people who finally found work last month landed low wage jobs, and almost half of the unemployed (43%) have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks. That’s 6 months without a job for 5.5 million people in this country, and that’s only the official tally. Youth unemployment is also awful, stuck at 23 percent. So what are we supposed to do? How do we fix this? Well, author Jeffrey Tucker is in studio with us today — a special treat — and he will tell us what he thinks should be done. One solution that washington has proposed is raising taxes, and in fact, today is the income tax’s birthday. Hurray! Wait…should we be celebrating this or should we be asking the question “where is our money going?” Maybe washington should be held accountable for all the money it not only wastes, but outright steals, before it starts extending its hands asking for more. Maybe congress should start curbing insider trading, or kickbacks, before it starts raising taxes for the majority of americans, but providing loop holes for the well-connected. And what role does the Federal Reserve play in all of this? How can it be held accountable, and should we just abolish the federal reserve as Ron Paul says? Well, Jeffrey Tucker will tell us what he thinks. He will be debating Dean Baker tonight in Washington on just this issue, and he is going to lay out his case against the fed.