<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Reuschlein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:47 PM<br>Subject: Peace Culture or Economics<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Link to send to others
by:</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span><b><span style="font-size:16pt"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/peace-culture-or-economics/" target="_blank">https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/peace-culture-or-economics/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%">Peace Culture or
Economics</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">by Dr. Bob Reuschlein</span><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">The problem with Marcella’s article on the Culture of War or
Peace is that military economics often precedes and causes many of the cultural
conditions to be amplified. So this press release is a point by point addition
to the seventeen quotes on the chart in the Marsella article</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: Marsella, A.J. (2011).
The United States of America:
“A Culture of War.” International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35,
714-728.<span><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D.,
Professor <i>Emeritus</i>, University
of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Going
clockwise around the Marcella chart he makes the following 17 points, which I
have bolded, followed by my comments on each point in non bolded text. The ninth point, the large military budgets
would be my main point and would be the main cause of the bad points or
obstacle to the good points Marcella lists.<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>1) Peace, Non-Violence, Diplomacy, Conflict
Resolution, Social Responsibilities and Duties Taught at all Education Levels</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">It is an excellent thing to teach these things, but they do not often
stop a military industrial complex determined to perpetuate its existence
through wars. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>2) Lobbying and Lobbyist Activities Reduced and
Monitored. Special Interest Groups Transparent</b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Lobbying is part of democracy, but excessive lobbying by
commercial interests seeking large government favors needs to be curbed. Journalist and forensic accountant Greg Palast
has found that each dollar of lobbying or campaign donations get returned about
350 times that amount in government favors, tax breaks, or spending. Since <a href="tel:1978" value="+661978" target="_blank">1978</a> when I began following politics in
earnest the growth of campaign spending has been exponential, doubling again
every few years. Then Japan was famous for money politics, now I doubt
anywhere else is nearly as bad as in America. I saw the death of investigative journalism in
the Reagan years in Eugene
as one radio station that covered all four political forums in the early
eighties was covering none in the late eighties. Even then their were 44,000 lawyers in DC to
about 2000 journalists to cover 535 congresspersons and the president, with
about 5000 congressional staff and 15,000 government information officers of
which 4500 were from the pentagon. Congress
is hopelessly outnumbered then and it’s much worse today. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>3) Isms (e.g., Sexism, Racism, Ageism) are to be
Resolved. Diversity is prized</b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">This will help, but high military budgets and the social decay
of empire fights against this process. Politicians
use the fear based brain of half the electorate to foment division and seek expensive
national security and local police security solutions to problems.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>4) Populace is Active and Participatory in
Citizen Affairs. Grass Roots</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">We in Wisconsin had over ten
thousand a day for four weeks including three peak Saturdays of 40,000 to
150,000 and a recall election, but nothing stopped Walker from stripping labor rights from
teachers and public workers. 15 million
world wide protested the Iraq War February 15, 2003 and it did not stop Bush or
even stop his re-election. Remember that
Gandhi and King were both shot to death after leading successful nonviolent
revolutions. Still this is a good goal,
not a panacea. <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>5) Collective, Sociocentric, and Ecocentric
Selves are Accepted</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Yes we must make room for all.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>6) Leaders are Principled, Transparent, Open,
Guided by Law and Ethics, Responsible to People</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">I Haven’t seen much of this, lately, in the advanced stages of
decline of a high military spending empire. Poll after poll shows the public wants one set
of issues, while the donor class gets what it wants instead. Many politicians are unprincipled, opaque,
guided by greed and donors.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>7) Sustainability and </b><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">“</span>Small is Beautiful</b><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">”</span> are Ethics</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">In some parts of America
this happens, but much more so in low military Europe.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>8) Wealth Sharing, Reduced Salary Gaps and
Wealth Accumulation, Charitable Donations Encouraged</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">We are getting the charitable donations, but the wealth divide,
that has quadrupled the 1% income compared to the 99% rest of us the last
thirty years from <a href="tel:1979" value="+661979" target="_blank">1979</a> to 2007, continues to grow significantly since the 2008 recession. High military spending correlates stronger
than income inequality, using the <i>Spirit
Level</i> (2010) statistics. This all
started with #1 nuclear weapons contractor General Electric spokesperson Ronald
Reagan getting elected president. Actually
may have started with the Lewis Powell <a href="tel:1971" value="+661971" target="_blank">1971</a> memo to organize industry against
all the liberal successes of the New Deal to Great Society period. The reaction to the post Vietnam cutting
the military in half was to set up think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and
the American Enterprise Institute and the lobby group American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC).<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>9) Carriers of Militarism Discouraged (e.g.,
arms sales, large military budgets, gun laws)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">The arms sales are a trivial fraction of the large military
budget, and the legend of the NRA only grows under the stagnancy, fear, and
lack of sharing growth with the middle class.
This is due to the advanced stage
of decline of a high military spending empire. Meanwhile our police are acting more and more
like an occupying army. <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>10) Religions Honor Differences and Encourage
Knowing And Respecting Others</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Wisconsin Governor Walker has been caught on tape talking about “divide
and conquer” strategies to achieve his goals. Militarists love to use religion as a wedge
issue.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>11) Spirituality as Connection, Awe, Reverence
for Life and Others is Important. </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Prizing of
Engi (i.e., Interdependecency)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">With all the religions trying to achieve world peace, why don’t
we have it by now? High military
spending and empire is the answer.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>12) Democracy Considered Standard But Not Imposed</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">We can see in Iraq
and the Arab Spring how premature attempts at democracy can be disastrous. Many institutions are necessary for democracy,
including a free press and humble politicians like George Washington.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>13) Cooperation & Collaboration are Important</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">But these arise best in an achievement oriented society not a
power oriented society, meaning low military spending enhances these characteristics
and high military spending enhances authoritarian control instead.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>14) Peace, Harmony, Social Interest, & Justice
at Person & Societal Levels</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">All wonderful things destroyed by high military spending control
oriented empire societies.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>15) National Department or Ministry of Peace.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">The big blunder was the <a href="tel:1947" value="+661947" target="_blank">1947</a> National Security Act renaming the
War Department the Department of Defense.
The CIA was created in that Act leading to covert operations abroad
creating endless wars and Operation Mockingbird subverting the domestic press. Now the allies of those institutions are
determined to undermine the United Nations. We have the National Institute of Peace thanks
to peace Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon when he was Appropriations Committee
Chair from <a href="tel:1981" value="+661981" target="_blank">1981</a> to <a href="tel:1986" value="+661986" target="_blank">1986</a>. Reagan’s first military budget passed 99-1, he was the
one. <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>16) Peaceful and Non-Violent Entertainment are
Promoted </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">I once heard that the average child saw 18,000 murders on
television growing up. That was twenty
years ago. How many people do they kill
on video games today? That’s worse.<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>17) Hegemonic Globalization Discouraged </b><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">–</span>
Cooperation with United Nations</b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">The pentagon seeks to control the world’s resources as an obsolete
notion left over from World War II. But China trades
all over the world without a deep water navy. War with China is impossible with all the
subcontractor work done there. The logic
of today’s military falls apart on close examination. World trade is already controlled of, by, and
for, corporate profits; why not complete the job of world governance and give
the people a direct voice in a new international democratic institution. Today’s UN is just an association of
governments. <b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">For more information about how stages of empire apply to America:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/5415354/STAGES_of_EMPIRE" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/5415354/STAGES_of_EMPIRE</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">More on control, militarism, and the social decay of empires:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/11421799/MILITARISM_CONTROL_EMPIRE_DECAY" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/11421799/MILITARISM_CONTROL_EMPIRE_DECAY</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Statistical basis for the connections of military spending to
socioeconomic problems:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4044456/SUMMARY_Military_DisEconomics" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/4044456/SUMMARY_Military_DisEconomics</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Peace, Dr. Bob Reuschlein,
Real Economy Institute<br>
best contact to ask Bob to speak to your group: <a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com" target="_blank">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a><br>
to leave message: 608-230-6640<br>
for more info: <a href="http://www.realeconomy.com" target="_blank">www.realeconomy.com</a><br>
(<i>Real Economy</i> and/or <i>Peace
Economics</i> free pdf on request by members of the press)<br>
an archive of this yearlong press release campaign can be found at: <a href="http://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/</a></span></p></div>
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