Founder of the Tibet House, Robert Thurman spoke saying, “Love has a greater capacity to heal and bring people together than anger, hate, jealousy or an other emotion”, before we arrived in Kingston, New York yesterday. The corner of Crowne and John Streets is where Gerald Celente of TRENDS Research and Journal held an Occupy Peace rally and bought the most historic buildings in the area.

The 1676 Senate House at 331 Clinton Ave. Built in 1676, it is the oldest public building in America.

Kingston Academy, owned by Gerald Celente and used by the Trends Research Institute for conferences, was built by the “trustees and freeholders” of the City of Kingston in 1774. Latin, mathematics and the arts were taught there, until the British struck the city during the American Revolution. Those same trustees and freeholders raced to restore the building’s function, doing so within five months of the attack. The Academy numbered among its students the artist John Vanderlyn, whose most famous work, “The Landing of Columbus,” hangs in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington. The Academy, like all the intersection’s buildings, has been constantly renovated and adapted to myriad uses over the decades. Its most recent transformation was as a conference center for The Trends Research Institute. Please see the History of Kingston.

From the Trends Journal website, Gerald Celente, who developed the Globalnomic® methodology to identify, track, forecast and manage trends, is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom, Celente, whose motto is “think for yourself,” observes and analyzes the current events forming future trends for what they are — not for the way he wants them to be. And while Celente holds a U.S. passport, he considers himself a citizen of the world.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts pulled no punches at the first session of the Trends Research Institute’s Peace and Prosperity Conference Sept. 18. Unless we find a way to wage peace, he said, the country will continue on its path toward a war that could culminate in nuclear Armageddon.

Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the treasury in the Reagan administration and a contributing editor to Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal, provided both an insider’s view of recent American history and a troubling analysis of why the country has to stop its relentless reliance on war as the solution for every economic, social and political crisis.

Roberts began by quoting Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz’s estimate of the economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — between $6 trillion and $8 trillion. Gary Null referred to those we’ve come to call the 1% as “Psychopaths”. “What we hate about ourselves we project onto other people”. I’ve been telling people that for decades. We need a Health Revolution. Most people don’t understand the basics of emotional health.

“We’re all born perfect”, Null went on. “I’ve never met a racist baby, all I’ve met are perfect Spirits”.

“We’re a nation of Maladaptive people”, Null continued, “Parent’s are insecure”.

Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist who lost her son, Casey, in Iraq. Cindy’s blog, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox and radio show, said yesterday, “With everything we live under, I never call it My Government, it doesn’t represent me. It doesn’t represent my hopes, my dreams, my principles. It represents the hopes, dreams, principles of the so-called, 1%. There should be hundreds of thousands of people in the street right now saying, Stop Killing people”.

“20 Million out of 26 Million people in Yemen are having a Humanitarian Crisis and I see very few people standing up for the poorest country in the Middle East”.

Cindy said that her and Gerald Celente want a movement with Teeth, “We’re not pacifist. The violence comes from the establishment, We have to defend ourselves, right? And our communities and those we love, and our brothers and sisters we don’t know”.

After that, Ralph Nader spoke for about an hour to a cheering crowd on this bright, sunny Sunday afternoon. Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, and author born in Winsted, Connecticut on February 27, 1934. In 1955 Ralph Nader received an AB magna cum laude from Princeton University, and in 1958 he received a LLB with distinction from Harvard University.

His career began as a lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut in 1959 and from 1961-63 he lectured on history and government at the University of Hartford. In 1965-66 he received the Nieman Fellows award and was named one of ten Outstanding Young Men of Year by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1967. Between 1967-68 he returned to Princeton as a lecturer, and he continues to speak at colleges and universities across the United States.

Ralph told the people they’re going to leave the event saying, “I now know what I can do and I know I can be effective”.

“If we do not participate and forestall, we’re Not going to make it”. Nader said in his opening remarks. “The world is full of countries that were very peaceful and they all thought it couldn’t happen there, and it did. The mass majority of the people did nothing.”

“Historically, the greatest movements for justice started in small towns and rural areas”.

Nader held up a flier of the Friends of Peace Pilgrim, Mildred Lisette Norman, who walked all over the country more than once, slept on people’s cots who now has people all over the country supporting her. She was killed by a car that hit her on the highway in 1981.

Quoting former Presidential candidate Ron Paul, Nader went on to say, Bush and Cheney Lied us into War, with the complicity of the mass media”. Nader mentioned the organization PEACE NOW, on the Israeli/Palestine issue, and said, “Peace Now has more dues paying members in the U.S. than AIPAC?”

Nader mentioned his favorite organization, Veterans for Peace who were a part of the cheering crowd.

Nader talked about The Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, but it had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II.

“War is actually illegal, as an instrument of national policy”.

“We have basically, PRESIDENTS, who are now PROSECUTORS, JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONERS ALL IN SECRET. That is clearly in violation of our Constitutional Separation of Powers. Only Congress can declare war.”

Then, the man who made it all happen,, From TRENDS JOURNAL, Gerald Celente addressed the crowd.

Gerald said the previous speakers summed it up, mentioning the names of Gary Null, Ralph Nader, Cindy Sheehan, and Robert Thurman, “It’s All about US, it’s Occupy PEACE. We’re seeing people wash up, little boys, girls and families, on beaches going into Turkey, Italy into Greece. Refugees we’ve never seen in our lifetime, where are they escaping from? They’re escaping from Iraq, WHO brought the war to Iraq?” In his highly animated way, Gerald went on to say, “What SICK person who calls themselves the president of the U.S. has the Right to say Someone else must go?”

More info on the continuous work to Occupy peace can be found at: https://occupypeace.us/

Videos from the event can be found on the April Watters Youtube Channel.