Johannes Dearing

Remember to always make technology serve you, not the other way round. Take what makes you stronger and better and reject what makes you worse.

It baffles me that wheneverpeople talk about social media and the internet, they assume that you use it badly. If used well, it is a technology with incredibly positive, inspiring, and constructive potential.

Sudanese civil war (2023–present) - Wikipedia

Did you know that 25 million people are experiencing extreme hunger in Sudan? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanes...

Be bold and care for the world that surrounds you, for you are never helpless, and there is always something you can do, no matter how small.

Afghanistan - Books written by women banned from universities

The Taliban have made life for Afghan women and girls intolerable. They have erased them from almost all spheres of life and systematically stripped away their rights and dignity. This latest ban is a further attempt to silence the voices of women.

Negotiations are everywhere. Whether you are driving your car and somebody wants to merge into your lane or you and your partner decide on where to go for dinner.

If you find negotiations scary, see them as an opportunity to curate healthy relationships with other human beings or experience the profound pleasure of creating common ground.

Do you find politics scary? Are you politically afraid? Focus on building bridges and looking for common ground. Whoever opposes you, what do you have in common? It enables you to potentially work together towards a solution. Even if their only contribution is to agree to your proposal. It's a win.

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Part of an happy life is treating every moment that is given to you as the present that it is.

UN general assembly to back Hamas-free government for Palestine Compromise plan sees Arab states condemning 7 October attacks in return for clear UN support for a Palestinian state The United Nations general assembly is to back a Hamas-free government for Palestine as part of a carefully crafted compromise that sees Arab states go further in condemning its October 2023 attack on Israel in return for clear support for a Palestinian state. The aim is to show how Israel and the US are isolated in opposing a long-term solution to the Gaza war, and how countries such as Germany, a strong supporter of Israel, are backing a solution in which the Palestinian Authority governs the West Bank and Gaza. Continue reading...

UN general assembly to back Hamas-free government for Palestine

Democratic senators back from Middle East trip say US complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon say Israel is systematically destroying Palestinians Two Democratic senators claim they’ve reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to force locals to leave, and they say the US is complicit. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both members of the Senate foreign relations committee, released their findings in a report on Thursday after returning from a congressional delegation to the Middle East where, they note, the destruction goes beyond bombs and bullets. They say they also found a systematic campaign to strangle humanitarian aid, which they call “using food as a weapon of war”. Continue reading...

Democratic senators back from Middle East trip say US complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing

Declaration of famine in Gaza lays bare Israel’s disregard for humanitarian duty The IPC’s findings that a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are starving should mark an urgent turning point in this war The declaration on Friday of widespread famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) should mark a turning point in the war. The IPC, which represents a fastidious survey of available data, is regarded as the international gold standard in nutritional crises. Long-criticised by humanitarians in other emergencies for its overabundance of caution, the IPC’s declaration of Level 5 – “catastrophic” hunger – in Gaza is a significant moment. Famine, under the IPC’s exacting criteria, requires three critical thresholds to be passed: extreme food deprivation, acute malnutrition and starvation-related deaths, all of which are now visible in Gaza. Continue reading...

Declaration of famine in Gaza lays bare Israel’s disregard for humanitarian duty

In destroying Rafah, Israel's military is looking to erase millennia of history The Palestinian city, located on the border with Egypt and whose development dates back to the Pharaohs, is now a field of rubble, writes historian Jean-Pierre Filiu in his column.

In destroying Rafah, Israel's military is looking to erase millennia of history

A question is a problem, a challenge.

In the absence of questions there is no growth.

What matters in the grand scheme of things? This question grounds and gives perspective.

Faith is about finding peace and calm in the safety of a certainty. For me it is breathing. As long as I can breathe, I can meditate/pray, and as long as I can do that, there is nothing I can't overcome.

What makes you genuinely happy? For that should be cultivated in your life.

When was the last time you have enjoyed nature?

Business should be about creating win-win situations, but instead a few that have given in to greed have successfully convinced the majority that this sickness is to be admired.

Who cultivates division, how and why? Division as one of the biggest political challenges today.

I dream of a world in which people deploy the process of understanding consciously and questions are appreciated for the profound purpose they have in it.

Who and what aren't you allowed to criticise?

"positive Beschäftigungseffekte" Ich find's immer so vielsagend, wenn sich Menschen hinter kryptischen Begriffen verstecken.

"Der wirtschaftsliberale Thinktank" Super, dass ihr denen Reichweite gebts... Genau das brauch ma...

I'm in my coffee-with-a-view phase.

Serving life and helping as many people as possible in the process is at the very core of who I am.

I'm keenly aware of the aloofness of the majority of my posts.
Working on that has a high priority for me.