<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: Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:29 PM<br>Subject: Film Made: Peace Economy<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 or tweet to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/film-made-peace-economy/" target="_blank">https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/film-made-peace-economy/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Film Made:
Peace Economy</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">By Dr. Robert
Reuschlein</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Overview</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Peace Studies Professor’s idea of a movie about
Dr. Reuschlein being the next step was worth some thought. Perhaps he did not know there already is a
movie about Dr. Reuschlein’s Peace Economics, made in 2010 by Film Studies
emeritus Jackson Tiffany of the University of Wisconsin
Madison. This is a great film to help people break out
of the two dimensional thinking of 1) politics and 2) money about military
spending and begin thinking through the 3) third dimension of the economic usefulness
of military spending. The 4<sup>th</sup>
dimension would be the whole empire concept and the 5<sup>th</sup> dimension
would be the long term 54 year cycle. In
short term thinking America,
the last two dimensions are a hard sell.
In fact, military spending does not create consumer products of any
kind, making it a black hole of lost manufacturing and construction in the
economy, leading to profound consequences other scholars have failed to analyze
in any depth at all. This amazing new
perspective is studied in eight key dimensions explaining the rise and fall of
empires. This film completely changes
the way we should look at the economy since World War II, especially the Great
Recession and subsequent events. This 40
minute film is available from the <a href="http://realeconomy.com" target="_blank">realeconomy.com</a> website for a $20 check,
postpaid, including all shipping and taxes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Beginnings</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Every
Monday at noon peace activists in Madison Wisconsin meet at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard
and Doty Street. This is a good location one block away from
the State Capitol and between the City and County buildings. One day I was downtown and decided to pass
out some of my own flyers and ended up in a conversation with a bearded grey
haired fellow with a hat that I had seen before at the Friends Meeting
House. He had enjoyed one of my lectures
a couple of years before on the “Twelve Stages of Empire” at the downtown
public library. He had asked for a copy
of the tape of that lecture and I had not gotten around to giving him
that. This time he had an offer for
me. He offered to make a ten minute
video about my ideas, something he had done for other organizations. I agreed saying it needs to be fifteen or
twenty minutes to get the material across well.
He agreed to that. Little did I
know I was going to be working with a retired Film Studies Professor from the University
of Wisconsin.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Tapings</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I
called him later and agreed to come over to his house with eight of my best
charts to begin taping. He started
realizing the magnitude of the issues of Peace Economics, and agreed to more
and more inclusions. He nixed one of my
charts that he thought would be too hard to explain, but accepted the
rest. We soon realized it was going to
take longer and ended up with a forty minute dvd. Since most of the material had been accumulated
over three decades, I agreed to a summary taping that would explain the
twenty-first century part of the story, as the taping was completed in the
summer of 2010. Jackson then added titles and other polish to
the film.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Distribution</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Jackson</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> had a good idea who
could produce the film economically. I
could have a dvd in a packet with a dust cover for about 1000 for $1000. That made it very economical, but I wanted more. I decided to double the cost and include a 24
page booklet. The booklet has all the seven
charts of material of the dvd on sixteen pages.
Another eight pages of important ideas left out of the original film
were added. This gave a cliff notes
version of the ideas for easy review and to show others individual points. The structure was such that a chart could be
on the left hand side of the fold and an explanation of the chart on the right
hand side of the fold. Had I consumer
tested this more, I would not have started with World War Two. Even though I refute the idea that the war
pulled us out of the Depression, the conventional wisdom propaganda is too hard
to overcome for some. I should have
started with the next two charts instead, then eased into WWII later on. The 2011 dvd has never taken off like the
paperback Peace Economics of 1986.
Distribution of the dvd is only about 200 so far compared to the 3000 of
the paperback. It is much easier to get
a book into a book store than a dvd. But
the newer work has much more new material than the original. It seems people want more words and less
numbers and charts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Actual copy of 24 page booklet enclosed with
each video:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4108656/BOOKLET_for_Peace_Economics_11_charts_24p._2011" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/4108656/BOOKLET_for_Peace_Economics_11_charts_24p._2011</a></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Peace, Dr. Robert
Reuschlein, Real Economy Institute</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Madison</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">, Wisconsin<br>
CONTACT: <a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com" target="_blank">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a><br>
INFO: <a href="http://www.realeconomy.com" target="_blank">www.realeconomy.com</a> </span></p>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">(<i>Real Economy</i></span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">and/or</span> <i><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Peace
Economics</span></i> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">free ebook for the
press)</span><br>
Archive of this two year long press release campaign at: <a href="https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/film-made-peace-economy/" target="_blank">https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/film-made-peace-economy/</a></span></p></div>
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