Asanka De Silva

Entrepreneur building a portfolio of sustainable, health & wellness brands - Earth’s Finest & LivOn | Non Executive Director | Speaker

[Asanka De Silva @asankade]

We’ve built the full range around specialty coffee because coffee has to come first, regardless of any added benefit.

Check out the range and let me know what you think.

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[Asanka De Silva @asankade]

There’s more to coffee than you think.

Coffee contains 100s of bioactive compounds and growing evidence points to positive long term health outcomes. Yet many are still unaware of it.

We’re leading that conversation with the next generation of LivOn.

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[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Extremist is the death and destruction that Benjamin Netanyahu government brings on a daily basis.

Extremist is them introducing the death penalty for Palestinians.

Extremist is this apartheid, genocidal Israeli Government that our Government shamefully supports.

[sarah schulman @sarahschulman3]

Watching Israel move into Lebanon, seizing land, destroying everything, and imposing ethnic cleansing on Shia Muslims- to the extent that Druse and Christian Lebanese HIDE their Muslim neighbors- is like watching Germany roll into Czechoslovakia in 1939, while the world yawns.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

There is growing evidence of grave violations of International Law that could amount to war crimes.

Starmer must stop aiding this war mongering President.

https://t.co/nGVvs7YBmq

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what terrorism looks like, state terrorism, we do it to others and then we act shocked when others do it back to us.

War crimes:

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

If you provide somewhere for the bombs to be loaded onto planes and then dropped on schools, hospitals, roads and railways in Iran, then yes, you are involved.

Me for @vioryvideo on how Britain has been dragged into the illegal war on Iran.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Keir Starmer utterly silent on the war crimes that are happening.

He'll drone on about a special relationship but nothing to say on war crimes in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine.

Trump and Netanyahu able to behave like we have law of the jungle.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known.

Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

HOW IS THIS NORMAL?

Trump on the girls’ school in Minab:

“The Tomahawk missile that destroyed it could have been anyone’s. A Tomahawk is very generic.”

Facts:
Tomahawk missiles are manufactured by RTX in Phoenix, Arizona.

The US sells them to exactly four countries: the UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands.

None of them are at war with Iran.

The White House already confirmed behind closed doors to Congress that the US targeted the area.
CNN confirmed US responsibility.

165 girls aged 7-12 are dead.

And the President of the United States just told the American people a Tomahawk missile is “very generic.”

This is not a mistake. This is not confusion.

This is a lie. On camera. About dead children.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

There is only one nuclear armed state in the Middle East. It is Israel.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.

The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Tony Blair at the so called Board of Peace summit blaming conditions in Gaza on the Palestinians.

No mention of Israels decades long occupation, 20 year siege & regular attacks (mowing the lawn) that turned Gaza into an open air prison.

[Howard Beckett @mayamuskl]

Over 50 boats, from 44 countries across 6 continents

The largest flotilla in modern history

Sailing to break an 18yr illegal 🇮🇱 siege of Gaza 🇵🇸
To feed starving children
To stop a genocide

Mainstream media is silent
And western ‘leaders’ are silent.

https://t.co/tergO2wYLe

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf of Donald Trump in the finest tradition of White Settler Colonial projects https://t.co/dHYEDHh4ez

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I don't think people are realizing what's happening with the Global Sumud Flotilla: it's potentially becoming extremely consequential.

Fact is, at this stage the flotilla is effectively escorted by multiple warships from 3 major countries: Spain, Italy and Turkyie.

The warships are all nominally there to "assist" and "rescue" the flotilla in case shit happens - that's the official story - BUT:
- They obviously have a very strong deterrence effect, so Israel will think twice before attacking
- I frankly cannot believe they wouldn't act if the flotilla gets attacked as this would be a major PR disaster for the governments in questions: your own citizens (including some MPs) getting attacked by Israel in front of your eyes in international waters (or Palestine territorial waters) and you watch it happen from your warship? Hard to see this happen, this is politically suicidal for a government.
- Logically speaking, why send actual warships if you haven't accepted the possibility there might be a confrontation? As the old military adage goes "don't draw your sword unless you're prepared to use it": if it was purely about assistance and rescue, they could have sent coastguard boats for instance. The "rescue and assist" framing is probably about plausible deniability to retain the most flexibility in the actions they can take, and in narrative management.

I'm not sure what's going to happen but as far as I can see there are 3 options:
1) Israel doesn't attack, the flotilla reaches Gaza, which means the blockade is breached and which is a major precedent
2) Israel attacks and the warships of all 3 nations let it happen, which will create a major public opinion disaster
3) Israel attacks and the warships fight them, and you effectively have war between NATO countries and Israel

I think you'll agree that whatever happens, it's consequential no matter what. What I suspect is that the governments in question are betting on Israel blinking first but that they're willing to follow through if Israel calls their bluff, they wouldn't have deployed the warships otherwise.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Tony Blair’s catastrophic decision to invade Iraq cost thousands upon thousands of lives.

He shouldn’t be anywhere near the Middle East, let alone Gaza.

It is not up to Blair, Trump or Netanyahu to decide the future of Gaza. That is up to the people of Palestine.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The Labour Party are bought and paid for.

Lobbying, cash for access, vested interests. This is who they are.

It doesn't have to be this way.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Keir Starmer.