1996:

• December 21:
  celebrating the solstice, we now begin to open up the ratville times with
  • future-possible,
    the present is all we have. Being in this moment is all there is; everything else is a construct of thought. . . if we give to each moment exactly what it demands, the chances are our grandchildren's grandchidren will have the opportunity to do so as well
    --includes 10 new essays and articles
  • and past-imperfect,
    the terrible invasion of meaninglessness and a feeling of not belonging invading the awareness of man, that was the unique sickness of our day . . . was the result of the so-called civilised man, parting company with the natural and instinctive man in himself.
    --includes 2 complete books & 16 articles/memorandum on
          the Kennedy Assassination & the Clandestine Operations Business

• December 2:
  • November stats -- processed and "thrown over the wall"

• December 1:
  • 10 new articles and one speech transcript in The Six Nations, including
    • Sovereignty and Treaty Rights - We Remember
    • the Haudenosaunee Environmental Action Plan
    • articles related to the 1995 UN Summit of the Elders and more
  • Please Support: Debby Moore - the hemp lady - Found Guilty
  • Some people just can't say "o.k." - "Drug Czar" Barry McCaffrey Holds Meeting to Undermine California Medicinal Marijuana Victory

• November 24:
  • The Six Nations:   Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth
    a great deal of life-promoting intelligence for those of us not familiar with the Haudenosaunee or this area of American history.
  • ratitor's corner celebrating November's Beaver or Frosty full moon

• November 18:
  • initiating a weekly listing of limelight features we invite you to visit
  • Terence McKenna's 1987 talk on Understanding and the Imagination in the Light of Nature including a standalone excerpt on octopi and the seeing of meaning
  • created HTML copy of Secret Fallout and moved up from inetSeries to radiation
  • October stats are up: now presenting 3-month's worth of ratical server usage totals
  • ongoing endeavor revisiting ALL of ratical's html files adding "polish"

• November 10:
  • Announcement on Leonard Peltier International Week of Action -- November 12-19
  • Seeding the Future, by Christina Waters on heirloom seeds and sustainability
  • Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come's Harvard speech, on aboriginal self-determination and the fight to end the government-by-expediency doctrine of "terra nullius"
  • found/added yet 4 more back links to ratical and have started numbering the list

• October 20:
  • We are very honored to be bringing on-board a selection of 39 articles from the Nuclear Guardianship Forum's 1992, 1993 and 1994 issues; it's focus:   On The Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials
  • new links at web-based articles in Health Costs of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation
  • jumpdoors updated + 4 more pointing to www.ratical.org have been located/added in.

• October 2:
  • consider participating in a day of reflection about how we consume:
    UNPLUG AMERICA--GIVE MOTHER EARTH A REST DAY on Oct 13th
  • Earthdance, Living Systems in Evolution is now available in paperback

• September 27:
  • adding in PLEASE SUPPORT THE Laura Kriho Legal Defense Fund segments to Renewables, the ratville times, and jumpdoors (+ updated jumpdoors)

• September 22:
  celebrating the equinox coinciding with completion of our first revolution around SOL as a companion to the ratitor's corner;   plus new includes:
  • Statements of Winona LaDuke on accepting Green Party's nomination for Vice President of the USA (8/29)
  • World Bank, October 3, 1995, Ethics and Spiritual Values and the Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Development, "50 Years of the World Bank, Over 50 Tribes Devastated" by Oren Lyons (Winter, '96)
  • Net Resources Relating to the Human Genome Diversity Project (2/25)
  • Along with the above 2, articles from Rachel's on BGH & Hormone imbalances caused by synthetic chemicals
  • Return of the Dragon: Hazards of Man-Made Magnetism in 4 parts, by David Yarrow
  • Excerpts:   Evolution's End, Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence, by Joseph Chilton Pearce
  • HTML versions of:
    • In the Absence of the Sacred, interview with Jerry Mander
    • patenting human genetic material, too insane for yew? Part II
  • moved renewables up from ratville to hub page and also now has:
    • Therapeutic Hemp Oilby Andrew Weil, M.D.
    • more hemp jumpdoors
  • moved Killing Our Own up from inetSeries to radiation
  • fully re-vamped jumpdoors listing
  • revamped radiation's page which now also includes:
    • further recommended reading:   articles local and web-based
    • as well as more information-rich jumpdoors / addresses
  • fully re-vamped jumpdoors listing

• September 19:
  • We're FINALLY back!   First up in the queue:
    • A new batch of 18 articles have been added to Ending Corporate Governance, plus a collection of Recommendable Links and Articles webly triangulated for additional sourcing, and 2 upcoming events in Announcements:
      • Democracy Teach-In, October 13-19
      • End Corporate Dominance, Int'l Day of Action, October, 29
    • ratitor's corner describes "some bumpy traveling", and approaching fall equinox.

• June 16:
  • an essay the ratitor has yearned to write for a very long time:
    Nuclear Technology: The Inappropriate Exercise of Human Intelligence,
    -- and Given This, What Is Appropriate?
  • as well as the new supporting references:
    • Nuclear Radiation and its Biological Effects, Bertell, 1985
    • Chernobyl and the Collapse of Soviet Society, Gould, 3 1993
    • excerpts from Chernobyl, Insight From the Inside, Chernousenko, 1991
    • What Is Factually Wrong with This Belief:   "Harm from Low-Dose Radiation Is Just Hypothetical --- Not Proven", Gofman, Fall 1995
    • Seven Comments on Proposed Radiation "Standards" for the Yucca Mountain Rad-Waste Respository:   October 26, 1995, Gofman
    • Nuclear Abolition Panel Will Stop At Nothing, Sanders, April, 1996
    • Rachel's Hazardous Waste News #147:   "Mr. Reilly's EPA Develops Strategy For Solving Nation's Waste Problems: Full-Scale Linguistic Detoxification", 9/89
    • first-pass HTML copy of Killing Our Own upgraded from the initial efforts of Kym Horsell for which we are exceedingly grateful. a self-described "Visiting opportunist" she has assembled some very useful sourcing. see her nexus located La Trobe Uni, Melbourne, Australia:   http://cs.binghamton.edu/~kym/
  • and an updated ratitor's corner snapshot of life-time.

• May 7:
  • inclusion of approximately half of the contents of Poison Fire, Sacred Earth, TESTIMONIES, LECTURES, CONCLUSIONS, THE WORLD URANIUM HEARING, SALZBURG 1992. Hear and be emboldened to action by the voices of those who came from around the world, including ab-original peoples and scientists, to articulate the true scope and nature of the tragic costs of nuclear technology. A selection of excerpts is also included.

• May 5:
  • updated Gaia's LifeWeb with articles: Rio: The Indigenous Way, arising from Elisabet Sahtouris' participation at the UNCED in 1992; Toward an Organic Worldview, a radio interview Scott London.

• March 20:
  • with a half-revolution around our supreme "nuclear furnace", since ratical branch's inception, mosa's notes and the ratitor's corner make their entrance.
  • added in Dr. John Gofman's meticulous and masterful Disproof of Any Safe Dose or Dose-Rate of Ionizing Radiation, with Respect to Induction of Cancer in Humans -- specifically, chapters 18 thru 22 (fancy, plain html) from Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure:   An Independent Analysis, 1990.

• March 10:
  • updated corpse announce page to include a letter to Ralph Nader

• March 6:
  • first sections of CNR's 1990 book, Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure : AN INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS (with fancy and plain HTML formats).
  • added "Chapter 1. Our Conclusion: A Large Share of Breast-Cancers Need Not Occur", to CNR's Preventing Breast Cancer, as well as extending to also contain fancy and plain HTML formats.

• February 14:
  • LARGE assortment of documents pertaining to Ending Corporate Governance. The possibilities for actually "turning off" corporations consuming the planet and us ARE, as Spock would say, "fascinating" -- to say nothing of amending corporate charters to strengthen the rights of Nature, humans, and communities. Also included in this nexus:   an electronic Bulletin Board, and a networking list anyone can add themselves to.
  • a general guestbook ledger has been added.