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The See Change Campaign was launched to challenge the Vatican's power. Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice, asks: "Why should an entity that is in essence 100 square acres of office space and tourist attractions in the middle of Rome, with a citizenry that excludes women and children, have a place at the table where governments set policies? If the Vatican is a state," she says, "then EuroDisney deserves a place on the Security Council." The Church's opposition prevented UN peacekeepers from distributing RU486 to rape victims in Kosovo. Source: Laura Flanders (Lflanders@aol.com), "Giving the Vatican the Boot", Ms. Magazine, October/November 1999. The Hague Global Agenda calls for recognition and enforce- ment of World Court rulings that over 150 countries have endorsed. The United States has been unwilling to submit to the international jurisdiction of the World Court. A long-term project put in motion at the conference is Global Action to Prevent War. Its purpose is to establish a coalition of organisations that will build a permanent body of NGOs, individ- uals and, eventually, governments to support world peace. Source: Robin Lloyd (tfmag@aol.com), "United for Peace", Toward Freedom, July 1999. Vatican the Boot" Ms, Magazine, October/November 1999. 24. US Nuclear Weapons Controlled by Mentally Unstable Personnel 22. US and Germany Trained and Developed the Mentally unstable individuals may be in control of US nuclear Kosovo Liberation Army devices. A screening process called the Personnel Reliability Since the early 1990s, Germany and the USA have collaborated Program (PRP), set in place after a near-disaster in 1959, is sup- in supporting the development and training of the Kosovo posed to guarantee that only competent, stable and dependable Liberation Army (KLA) deliberately to desta- individuals have access to America's nuclear bilise a centralised socialist government in arsenal. Yugoslavia. Undercover support of Kosovo's PRP is a two-step process consisting of an rebel army was established as a joint endeav- initial screening and post-approval monitor- our between the CIA and Germany's ing. Screening includes a cursory medical Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Mentally unstable evaluation, review of the candidate's person- Since the mid-1990s, there has been a individuals may be in nel file and a background check of profes- handful of Pentagon contractors or private sional, educational and personal histories. military companies providing support to the control of US nuclear However, no routine psychological testing is KLA. One of these contractors is Military devices. done, and an expelled PRP Marine has Professional Resources, Inc. (MPRI), which claimed that heavy drinking and depression employs more than 400 personnel and can are overlooked. In certain cases, individuals access the résumés of thousands of former US In several Cases, still had their PRP clearance while in pri: Thee has also been a blurring of law personnel have gone on “ * DRP-cevttiod people have sone on to enforcement and military activities by to commit suicide or commit suicide or murder, assault, rape Applcation Intnvationst Corporation fgg TUTaet assault, ape 2nd HM ne non contons inher pst “Dvncorn's o other serious crimes, and ore , ; trowiters. wae ‘rounded “by pre. exposing unstable mental Soubees Ken Silverstein (ksilverstein@ conditions in their past and present. Indonesian East Timorese militiamen in erols.com), "Positive Attitude Toward the post-referendum violence that swept Nuclear Weapons Duty", Mother Jones, the territory. Others, providing police November 1998. services in NATO-occupied Kosovo, were attacked by both Serbian and Albanian militia groups. Source: Wayne Madsen (wmadsen777@ aol.com), "Mercenaries in Kosovo: The US Connection to the KLA", The 25. US Military Trains Soldiers to Hunt, Kill and Eat Tame Animals People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) estimates that more than 10,000 animals, including chickens, Progressive, August 1999. rabbits and goats, are used each year at military installations around the country in military training classes. 23. International Conference Sets World Agenda for "Survival Skills" teaches soldiers to hunt, kill, cook and eat the Peace tame animals. The Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP) Conference, which took Transported to training grounds by truck, the soldiers stage an place in The Netherlands in May 1999, set a "Global Agenda" for ambush of an animal-laden vehicle, and release, chase, capture world peace in the 21st century. Ten thousand peace activists, and kill the animals. They are "required to stroke the rabbit to Nobel Peace Prize winners and celebrities from a hundred differ- calm it, then bash it on the head—and the rabbits don't always die ent countries met for four days in to voice their suggestions on with the first blow". how to make international peace possible. Two Air Force bases alone used more than 1,500 rabbits each One campaign launched at the conference was the International —_-year at a cost of more than $10,000, and, according to a 1997 Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), which will encourage Department of Defense report, the Air Force kills more rabbits in tracking, protesting and publicising the sales and shipments of survival skills courses than does the DoD in all its intramural weapons. Referring to the fact that the United States sold $119 research facilities combined. billion in arms (some 45 per cent of the world's total) from 1989 Source: D'Arcy Kemnitz (darcy @wildlifeAdvocacy.org), to 1996, Pierre Sane of Amnesty International stated at the confer- "Irrational Rations: Animals Used in Military Training", The ence that the US is "becoming the arsenal of the world". Animals’ Agenda, July/August 1999. oo Mentally unstable individuals may be in control of US nuclear devices. 23. International Conference Sets World Agenda for Peace The Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP) Conference, which took place in The Netherlands in May 1999, set a "Global Agenda" for world peace in the 21st century. Ten thousand peace activists, Nobel Peace Prize winners and celebrities from a hundred differ- ent countries met for four days in to voice their suggestions on how to make international peace possible. One campaign launched at the conference was the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), which will encourage tracking, protesting and publicising the sales and shipments of weapons. Referring to the fact that the United States sold $119 billion in arms (some 45 per cent of the world's total) from 1989 to 1996, Pierre Sane of Amnesty International stated at the confer- ence that the US is "becoming the arsenal of the world". 22 - NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2000 In several cases,