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... GLEPBAL NEWS ... NEWS CORRECTION The Hearst Corporation's legal divi- sion has requested that we print a state- ment indicating that the article pub- lished in NEXUS, vol. 2, no. 20, enti- tled "Extraterrestrial Archaeology", was not written by David Hatcher Childress. It was in fact written by Mr Zecharia Sitchin, as found in his book titled Genesis Revisited, published by Avon Books in 1990. ments, treaties and conventions formed over the past few decades are administered by more than 2,000 new international agencies and instrumentalitics, said Sir Ninian. "The result has been in every country a plethora of new laws appearing on the statute book, giving local effect to newly assumed international obligations,” he said. “Countries have voluntarily surrendered parts of their sovereignty in the cause of interdependence and cooperation. "It will surely only be by the extension of international law throughout the nations and its universal observance that they (countries) will come to live together at peace and in justice as one world commu- nity." (Sources: Inside News, February 1992; The Australian, 17 August 1994, 10 October 1994) WILL MOBILE PHONES BECOME MOBILE ID TAGS? The latest example of the effects of UN treaties upon Australian citizens’ rights is of course the homosexual rights issue in Tasmania. Here we have an island state in a democracy where many of the people seem to want the law to stay the way it is. However, it says in one of the several thousand treaties we have signed that this law is not acceptable. It is a pity that the Federal Government did not tell the people of Tasmania this when they signed the treaty in the first place—or was that the general idea? The following extract is worth reading in light of the above: ‘The remarkable growth of international laws had led countries including Australia to surrender parts of their sovereignty to the world community, the former Governor-General of Australia, Sir Ninian Stephen, said last night. Sir Ninian, chairman of the foundation examining Australia’s Constitution, said that international justice and peace would only come by adherence to such laws, of which there are now over 50,000. His views, expressed at the opening of the International Bar Association confer- ence in Melbourne, echoed those of former Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam. Mr Whitlam said recently that it was crucial for Canberra to introduce world standards such as United Nations and International Labour Organisation conven- tions and not be deterred by State's rights. The 50,000 new international instru- Not many people realise that the tech- nology exists to track a person's where- abouts from their mobile phone handset via certain types of satellite. The next step in our technological ‘evo- lution’ from the consumer's point of view is that virtually everyone will have their own personal mobile phone, with their own personal mobile phone ID number. Each of these mobile phone handscts emits a virtually continuous signal which is picked up by satellite or ground tower and relayed on. It is rumoured that most hand- sets emit this signal even when the power is turned off. It is any Big Brother's dream come true in terms of knowing where everyone is at any time. It was announced in UK newspapers recently that by 1998, mobile phones will go global. Your handset will give you access to a satellite-based system that will allow calls to be made practically any- where on Earth. "Iridium, a consortium of 17 major com- panies led by Motorola, proposes to launch 66 satellites in orbits crossing both poles, ensuring a satellite will fly over every spot on Earth at least once every nine minutes. At any one time at least three satellites will be in view, enabling the handsct's precise position to be located." (Source: The Weekly Telegraph [UK], no. 173, 2-8 November 1994) UN TREATIES—NEW WORLD ORDER BY STEALTH? Australians are beginning to wake up to the fact that the Federal Government has been very busy making Australia a co-sig- natory to literally thousands of internation- al treaties. United Nations treaties, with irresistible names such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), are usually signed without as much as a whisper to the public for debate. When Governor-General Bill Hayden signed the abovementioned ICCPR on 25th December 1991, he hadn't counted on the public uproar that would ensuc. Tens of thousands of people phoned and wrote to politicians complaining that the bill was a defacto Bill of Rights being imposed upon all Australians by an unclected face- less UN committee in another country. The following December, the Governor- General was asked to ratify a treaty (ILO 158) only hours before the dissolution of Parliament. No media release was issued. There was no public debate. ARE cE WCOMER'S NORMAL ACTION. PLEASE rare PSYCHOLOGEAL RE. DON'T WORRY, Just PRESS IT. NEXUS ¢ 9 DECEMBER 1994 - JANUARY 1995