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Peter O’Brien on Terrorism & Cyber Threats

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Peter O’Brien has more than 30 years of successful leadership, management and planning experience in leading organizations from a handful to several thousand, from a single site to orchestrating simultaneous operations at three-dozen locations on four separate continents. Mr. O’Brien’s Navy career included ten years at sea, more than a dozen years stationed overseas and multiple deployments, providing the opportunity to study, practice and execute the widest possible range of leadership and planning skills. He has participated in planning and execution of military operations from the tactical to the strategic level in the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia. He is a recognized SME in strategic planning, intelligence, the Middle East and the Far East

On the show we cover-

  • Defining the Threats very clearly ‘terrorism & cyber’ against America and U.S. interests
  • Moving from GWOT frame to identifying specific actors and groups
  • Afghanistan, Taliban, Tribes, War Lords, Al Qaeda, Pakistan and India
  • Somalia, Ethiopia, Islamic Courts and Al Shabaab
  • National interests, transparency in U.S policy and the Constitution
  • President’s Fireside Chats and the need to explain to American’s the perceived threats and possible responses
  • AUMF and the need for a Declaration of War
  • Cyber threats; individuals, criminal organizations, terrorist groups and nation states

Dave Asprey on Having A Healthier and Happier Baby

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Dave is President of Smart Life Forum, an 18-year-old nonprofit group focused on optimal wellness and longevity. His writing has been published in the New York Times and Salon.com. Companies like Cisco Systems and Google have invited him to speak to employees about health. In the 90s, Dave applied problem solving techniques from the computer networking industry to solve his own health problems, losing 100 lbs. and keeping it off permanently. In the process, he became an expert in nutrition and metabolic function. He holds an MBA from Wharton and a BS from Cal State.

On the show we cover:

  • Transgenerational Influence on genetic expression
  • Are we progressing or regressing in our ability to reproduce
  • Pre-conception health and wellness planing including diet, environment, nutrition and stress management
  • toxins in the food and animal husbandry
  • Medicalization of birth
  • toxins in the environment ‘going green in the home’
  • The need for interdisciplinary studies
  • Optimal conditions for birth (home, centers, hospitals)
  • Nervous system survive or thrive mode ( sympathetic or parasympathetic dominance)
  • Birth psychology ( birth and nervous system imprinting)
  • Inner Balance from HeartMath
  • Transpersonal Psychology, Dr. Stan Groff and Holotropic Breathwork
  • Mother’s communication with the fetus
  • Grandmother influences on conception (lineage)

Websites mentioned

Better Baby Book – http://www.betterbabybook.com
Bullet Proof Executive – http://www.bulletproofexec.com
The Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology and Health – http://birthpsychology.com
Dr Stan Grof http://www.stanislavgrof.com
HeartMath Inner Balance http://www.upgradedself.com/tech/heartmath-inner-balance-app.html

Ben King, Armor Down – Working with Veterans with Meditation and Yoga

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Ben returned from Iraq in 2007. For six months he was flying high. Then the euphoria of returning home wore off and he was left with sleepless nights and a surprising amount of stress and physical discomfort. He spent the next 2 years worth of trial and error trying to figure out how to use mindfulness and exercise to calm his mind and realign his body for a civilian lifestyle. The Army taught him how to up armor his mind and body for War. He taught himself how to Armor Down.

On the show we cover:

  • War stress
  • Yoga and sleep
  • Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba and Armor Down Blog
  • Mindfulness Meditation; developing the witness and creating inner peace
  • Happy Wife, Happy Life
  • SEAL’s CDR Mark Divine & Rob DuBois on warriorship and meditation
  • Memorial Day Event

Armor Down - http://armordown.blogspot.com

Eric Wolterstorff on Social Trauma

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Eric Wolterstorff is an expert on societal and individual responses to traumatic events. He has founded three businesses and spent over 25 years helping leaders manage crises, including post-Katrina New Orleans, Germany, and Indonesia; and has been conducting social trauma analyses on the US, Germany, Israel, Japan, and Rwanda. He is current focusing on governance relationships between wealthy countries and developing countries responding to impending threats, current crises, or large-scale traumas.

On the show we cover:
* Trauma and Stress
*  Belief & Awareness
* Second Memory- unwinding trauma in the body/mind
* Creating new habits
* Catharsis and Somatic management
* Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system
*  Flight, Flee & Freeze
* Creating boundaries
More information about Shifting Cultures

Peter O’Brien on U.S. Intelligence Reform

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Peter O’Brien has more than 30 years of successful leadership, management and planning experience in leading organizations from a handful to several thousand, from a single site to orchestrating simultaneous operations at three-dozen locations on four separate continents. Mr. O’Brien’s Navy career included ten years at sea, more than a dozen years stationed overseas and multiple deployments, providing the opportunity to study, practice and execute the widest possible range of leadership and planning skills. He has participated in planning and execution of military operations from the tactical to the strategic level in the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia. He is a recognized SME in strategic planning, intelligence, the Middle East and the Far East.

On the show we cover-
 
* Tactical and Strategic Intelligence
* Japan pre-World War 2
* Al Qaida pre- 9/11
* Interdisciplinary approach to intelligence
* Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
*  Institutional and Cultural Reform
*  Reorganization in Light of Budgetary Constraints and Threat Analysis 

Powerful Peace with Mike German, U.S. Counter-Terrorism

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Michael Ostrolenk joins ret- SEAL Rob DuBois as a co-host for Powerful Peace Radio.  They talk with Mike German who prior to joining the ACLU, served sixteen-years as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he specialized in domestic terrorism and covert operations.   He authored, ”Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent”

In the interview they discuss:

-Constitutional rights in the age of terror
- The need to protect national security whistleblowers against retaliation
-  Why is it important to think like a terrorist
-  Terrorism as a political tactic
-  What are the real threats in America today

Col. Douglas Macgregor on Pentagon Reform

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 Col. Douglas Macgregor, USA (Ret.) is a decorated combat veteran with a Ph.D. in  international relations from UVA.  He is the author of Breaking the Phalanx  Warrior’s Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting and Tranformation Under Fire and is a frequent guest on television and radio news shows.
 
On the show we cover-
  • Cold War as extension of World War Two
  • Liberal interventionism
  • Global War on Terror as mistaken conception
  • Al Queda;  Afghanistan, Pakistan , North Africa, Iraq, Philippines
  • Threats v. Opportunities  (black and white thinking v. multiperspectival thinking)
  • Arab/ Muslim Awakening
  • Iran as boogeyman, Hezbollah in Lebanon
  • U.S. alliances

O’Brien, DuBois, & Ostrolenk on Intelligence Reform

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In this special edition of the Michael Ostrolenk Show, Michael co-hosts Power Peace Radio with Rob DuBois.  Their guest is intelligence expert Peter O’Brien and they discuss improving national security intelligence by learning from past mistakes as well as implementing an interdisciplinary team approach and using different types of thinking.

Peter O’Brien has more than 30 years of successful leadership, management and planning experience in leading organizations from a handful to several thousand, from a single site to orchestrating simultaneous operations at three-dozen locations on four separate continents. Mr. O’Brien’s Navy career included ten years at sea, more than a dozen years stationed overseas and multiple deployments, providing the opportunity to study, practice and execute the widest possible range of leadership and planning skills. He has participated in planning and execution of military operations from the tactical to the strategic level in the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia. He is a recognized SME in strategic planning, intelligence, the Middle East and the Far East.

Dave Asprey, Bullet Proof Executive on Bio-Hacking

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Dave Asprey is a Silicon Valley investor, computer security expert, and entrepreneur who spent 15 years and $250,000 to hack his own biology. Some of the topics discussed in this interview include:  Noorotropics, EQ, non-ordinary states of consciousness, perinatal psychology, Holotropic Breathwork, coffee, Epi-Genetics, sleep, sex and making babies.  Dave’s websites mentioned during the show are Bullet Proof Executive & Better Baby Book.

From the Bullet Proof Executive:

What is the Art of Biohacking?

  • Hack Your Biology and Bio-chemistry for more focus, better health, and happiness
  • Use Technology to get Immediate Feedback From Your Performance, Diet, Sleep, etc.

How to Keep Your Brain From Turning Off?

  • After meetings, Dave didn’t remember half the things that happened. He began to play FreeCell, and found out some days he could play and others he couldn’t. Hence, the need to a better diet, practices, and supplements.
  • Provigil increases your ability to focus and it is profound what you can do. It is a prescription medicine. The military uses it for fighter pilots in replacement of methamphetamine to stay up for 40-50 hours.
  • Aniracetam is our new Upgraded Brain
  • MCT Oil reverses disease in studies, as seen on our podcast episode #

Sleep Hacking?

  • Sleep is controlled by the reptilian brain
  • Improve the quality of your sleep, and you can recover faster
  • More good stress and good food during the day helps you have higher quality sleep
  • After your nervous system learns, your body knows you are not going to die and will be able to sleep less.

Holotropic Breath-work

  • Imitates LSD and you experience very strong visionary state
  • Dave learned a lot about himself. Answering questions like: Why am I here? What is holding me back?

Other Topics Discussed in the Show:

MDMA & PTSD. Empowering individuals to heal themselves.

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Rick Doblin, PhD founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in 1986 and joins Michael for a conversation about the history and effectiveness of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapeutic treatment. Essentially banned by federal law and regulation for decades, research in this promising field is resuming, with notable success in treating PTSD in soldiers using MDMA-assisted psycho-therapy. Learn more about this modality offering hope to those with this chronic illness, at http://mdmaptsd.org/.