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Roman concrete could repair its own cracks. Some Roman buildings have stood for 2,000 years, while modern concrete can start to crumble within decades. For a long time, scientists did not fully understand why. The Romans made their concrete from lime, water and volcanic ash from the area around Pozzuoli, near Naples. The ash reacted with the lime and created a material that grew stronger over time instead of weaker. In 2023, a team from MIT led by Admir Masic found another piece of the puzzle, small white lumps of lime scattered through the concrete. Scientists had always thought these lumps were a sign of careless mixing. In fact, they were the repair kit. When a crack forms and rainwater gets in, the lime dissolves and refills the crack with new mineral, sealing it from the inside. The secret was “hot mixing.” Instead of using slaked lime, the Romans added quicklime directly to the mix. It heated up as it reacted with water and left these lumps behind on purpose. To test the idea, the team cracked samples of concrete made with the Roman method and let water run through them. Within two weeks, the cracks had sealed completely. In concrete made without the lime lumps, the water kept flowing. Roman harbour concrete went even further. Pliny the Elder wrote that once it touched the waves, it became a single block of stone that grew stronger every day. In 2017, geologist Marie Jackson showed he was right, seawater slowly grows rare crystals inside the concrete that hold it together.

More information emerging about the conviction of Del Somerville (jailed for two years for throwing a plastic bottle and telling police officers to 'F**k off' at a protest against the small boats). The court heard that Somerville had played a relatively minor role at the incident, had tried to pull another protester away when he confronted police, actually lived at the marina rather than travelled there for the purpose of protesting, and that the plastic bottle he threw was 'small' or 'empty'. It's impossible, in the context of wider sentencing policy in this country, to avoid the conclusion that the sanction handed down to Somerville amounts to two-tier justice.

As schools in Italy return from the Summer holidays police will enter them and check lists of pupils for unvaccinated children. If even after the Covid Scamdemic you need a further demonstration of the power of Big Pharma and its investors read this :- italiantimes.substack.com/p/…

In 1922 the British Empire was larger than at any point in history. It extended to 24 percent of the total landmass of the whole world. At this time, the government had 300-350,000 civil servants. They had no computers, no electric typewriters, no calculators. Calculations that would take seconds today would take minutes or hours. Research that would take seconds today would take days and yet those 300-350,000 were able to do everything necessary to run a quarter of the planet. Today the British government employs 557,000 civil servants with computers and modern technology to run only Britain. I can’t help thinking that maybe we’re employing too many civil servants.

🚨 NOW: President Trump is in the Oval Office with RFK Jr. announcing an executive order giving FLEXIBILITY in the childhood vaccination schedule Children should NOT have 72 jabs into their arms. Especially given we now know "scientists" like Fauci lie about them being "safe and effective" "In many cases, we required 72 JABS for beautiful healthy children.. Effectively immediately, we're recommending vaccines for 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases along with the MMR." Additionally, the vaccines will be SPLIT UP rather than a deluge of them being forced into kids' arms in one day.

The UK’s national debt is now over £3 trillion. The government is sitting on a powder keg — and I fear Andy Burnham doesn’t even realise it.

🚨📉THE SLOW DEATH OF BRITAIN: We have shit water companies so we buy bottled water. We have rubbish police so we hire private security. We have terrible healthcare so we pay private hospitals instead. Airbnbs in Cornwall pay council tax but get no rubbish collection, so they pay Biffa on top. An awful lot of firemen are now volunteers. NHS dentists don’t really work anymore, so you go private or you pull it out yourself. Our roads are littered with potholes nobody fills. Your privately funded tyres and suspension are the collateral. You are forced under threat of criminal prosecution to fund the BBC, and it’s so bad you pay for streaming to get news or entertainment anyway. Your bins are collected fortnightly, so you drive to the tip. The tip now requires a booking, a permit and proof you live in the county. Garden waste is a separate annual subscription. On top of the council tax that used to cover it. Your GP surgery is an 8am phone lottery, so you pay £40 to an app to speak to a doctor in a different time zone. CAMHS has a two year waiting list, so parents remortgage for private assessments. Your child’s SEN provision is a legal entitlement, so you hire a solicitor to sue the council for it. The council spends more fighting you than the support would have cost. Physio is a forty week wait. Your back does not have forty weeks. Schools teach in portable cabins bolted to the playground because the actual building is held up by aerated concrete and hope. Half of them are technically insolvent. Parents fund the reading books, the glue sticks, the photocopier, the roof and increasingly the teachers wages - all via a PTA raffle and local fundraisers. The state offers “free” childcare hours that don’t cover the nursery’s costs, so the nursery bills you a “top up fee” for the free thing. Shoplifting under £200 is functionally legal, so Tesco hires guards - who crucially don’t even try to stop it - and you pay for them in the price of the milk. 999 takes an hour, so you buy the Ring doorbell, gather the evidence, file the report and get a crime number for the insurance you also pay for. Court backlogs run to years, so anyone with money settles privately and everyone else gets nothing. Legal aid is gone. Represent yourself. Passport and DVLA backlogs are chronic, so the state sells you a fast track service to escape the queue the state created. The trains are late whoever owns them, so you drive on the roads with the potholes. Public toilets are shut, so you buy a coffee you don’t want. The library is staffed by pensioners working for free. Street lights are switched off at midnight to save money in a country with a burglary charge rate near zero. You pay National Insurance for fifty years and they move the pension age. You pay the adult social care precept every year and then sell your mother’s house to pay for adult social care. Leaseholders pay for a “waking watch” because the state signed off the cladding and then billed the residents to fix it. Social housing sits on the most valuable land in Britain, allocated by need rather than proximity to work, 48% of zone 1 social housing is occupied by foreigners mostly welfare dependent - while the nurses, teachers and other workers who keep zone 1 running commute ninety minutes each way from Kent because we stopped building anything in 1979. Every one of these is a service you have already bought. The receipt is your payslip. The tax burden is heading for its highest sustained level since the 1940s. The service level is the worst in living memory. You are not overtaxed or underserved. You are actually BOTH, simultaneously, and the gap between the two is where your standard of living went. The state has become a subscription you cannot cancel and cannot use.

⚠️ FRAMERS, THAT HOUSE YOU'RE BUILDING BY HAND IS BEING BUILT BY A ROBOT CREW SOMEWHERE ELSE RIGHT NOW A dozen Tesla Optimus units just framed an entire house from the foundation up, no scaffolding crew, no framing contractor, nobody standing around waiting on materials. Framing is one of the hardest jobs on a site. You're balancing on trusses, reading blueprints on the fly, and timing every cut so the whole structure lines up by the time the roof goes on. It's the kind of work people spend years getting good at. Now watch what's happening in the footage. The robots are climbing the frame, setting studs, running the roof trusses, and doing it as a full crew, the way an actual framing team would, except none of them stop for lunch and none of them call in hurt. Nobody expected robots to learn a full trade before they learned to walk normally. They're already building the house. If you still think construction is years away from automation, the frame is already up.

21 out of 27 EU countries have more deaths than births

🚨 BREAKING: CATL Shuts it Down!! Battery Giant CATL shuts down fake news of slowing demand for lithium batteries. ⚠️ Over 700,000 Tonnes Extra Lithium Supply needed to meet current demands. Core demand message from CATL management Management stated clearly that demand is “exploding.” The company reaffirmed its long-term view of 20–30% compound annual growth for the next five years and indicated that 2026–2027 growth will exceed that average, with next-year growth of around 30% described as solid. Battery production reached 498 GWh in the first half (+60% year-on-year versus ~310 GWh in the prior-year period). Capacity utilization stood at 94.86%. Existing capacity (half-year basis) of roughly 525 GWh annualizes to about 1,050 GWh. Capacity under construction totals 764 GWh. Once completed, total capacity reaches approximately 1,814 GWh—well above prior market expectations of around 1,200 GWh for next year (management guidance implies 1,700–1,900 GWh). This expansion is described as real capital expenditure already being deployed, not slideware. Running near-full utilization while expanding aggressively is presented as the clearest signal of strong, visible orders. Energy-storage revenue recognition cycles have lengthened to 6–12 months after shipment. This accounting lag explains rising inventory and the modest sequential profit growth in Q2; it is not evidence of weaker underlying demand. Gross-margin pressure is framed as structural, with profit per GWh essentially unchanged. Revenue and net profit rose sharply (revenue +54.8% to 276.9 billion yuan; attributable net profit +42% to 43.3 billion yuan), consistent with high operating rates and order strength. Direct lithium demand implications Industry-wide lithium-battery shipments hit 1,496 GWh in the first half, with a full-year central expectation above 3,000 GWh. This maps to lithium-carbonate demand already in the 2.6–3.0 million-ton range. Even assuming only 25% further growth, roughly 700,000 tons of additional annual supply would be required. Upstream realities (Argentine salt-lake projects entering a steadier phase and tighter processing requirements in Africa) are described as mismatched with the scale of battery-side capital spending. CATL’s order book and capacity plans are real, the binding constraint shifts toward lithium supply rather than soft battery demand. #lithium #asx #mining #bess #spodumene #australia $min.ax $pls.ax $ltr.ax $abl $gln.ax #criticalminerals #magnets #rareearths #commodities #gold

The Kremlin is introducing a complete ban on publishing photos and videos of the consequences of Ukrainian strikes. Since early morning, federal and official Kremlin media have not published a single photo or video of the burning Wildberries warehouses in St. Petersburg. The same happened during previous attacks on warehouses and refineries. Kremlin media only report on new strikes against Ukraine and Russia’s endless economic growth and "victories" on the frontline. Unofficial pro-Kremlin media merely mentioned “smoke in the sky” and that “the cause of the smoke is still unknown.”

🚨 If you are a white person in Britain and you get assaulted by ethnic minority men: The police watch on and wait until you are on the floor before moving in to arrest YOU. The police make no attempt to arrest your assailants, letting them run off without consequence. The police call you a “dick”. The police hit your head against the police car. The police then put a statement out claiming they are satisfied with the conduct of the officers. The police demand the footage proving their statement to be false not be shared. All because the Police ‘Race Action Plan’ demands officers do not “over police” black people. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. The Tories introduced these disgusting programs to force police to be institutionally racist against white people. Labour continues them. Reform will ABOLISH all Race Action Plans and ensure EVERYONE IS TREATED EQUALLY.

🚨DISTURBING🚨 An Iranian singer has been sentenced to 74 lashes for performing on YouTube without a hijab. Parastoo Ahmadi was arrested with her band and was later sentenced to flogging, a two-year travel ban and a two-year ban on engaging in artistic activities. The Iranian regime does not allow women to sing by themselves in public. For principal, I am sharing her music. Here’s the video they didn’t want you to see.

What is playing out now with the Belfast attack, with Henry Nowak, is a grand symphony of gaslighting & dishonesty that is almost too stomach-churning to watch We witnessed the same after Southport, with the rape gangs....and on & on They KNOW their mass migration ideology caused these atrocities. So they choose to deflect on to right-wing politicians, GB News and what they call the "far right". The public need to understand exactly how their game is played and the poisonous ideology that underpins it. The cycle is always the same: Fury erupts across Britain, driven not by public figures (as they claim), but by the atrocity itself. You know, the mad asylum seeker wielding a bloodied knife... Footage is shared on social media, watched with our own eyes. The pure unvarnished truth that the legacy media can't spin. Figures on the right respond with natural fury - indeed, rage - that the elite's callous disregard for reality and their fellow citizens has yet again unleashed carnage. But the media and the political class can't talk about that reality. They can't talk about the incident itself. Because they would have to admit it is thanks to them that such people - such murderers - have entered the country. The BBC, The Guardian, Sky News, Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems & many Tories, too -- What THEY CHOOSE to talk about, what they WANT YOU TO THINK the real story is about, is the anger and the choice of words of those of us who are utterly appalled and outraged by the latest atrocity -- an atrocity THEY enabled. This is gaslighting propaganda of the most repellent and unforgivable kind. With Southport, the real story was apparently not the son of a Rwandan refugee committing one of the most heinous crimes in British history. No, the real story was Nigel Farage's reaction to that orgy of slaughter against little girls. When locals rioted, James O'Brien and others labelled it the 'Farage Riots'. The small number of rioters suddenly became the story, used to dismiss the concerns of ALL protestors. "Far-right thuggery", was how Keir Starmer referred to law-abiding mothers and pensioners. Anything to avoid talking about the crime itself and the ideology that brought its perpetrator into our country. And now we see the same playing out with the Belfast attack and the murder of Henry Nowak. Newsnight misleadingly quoted Nigel Farage as saying "white rage," a revealing and vile smear for which they have had to apologise yet again. In lockstep, the media and political class rapidly converged on their narrative: this was to be a story about Nigel Farage's naughty words. THIS is what has dominated their coverage. This is what they want to talk about in Parliament, in the TV studios, and in the press. Farage's naughty words. "Just how naughty were they? Should such bad words be tolerated? Should he be arrested?" "Do we need to apply yet more censorship to protect the public against his mean, hurty words?" These people are so far beneath contempt it is difficult to find words that do them justice. This is a story not about Nigel Farage or the right, but the deeply ingrained anti-British and anti-white ideology that is destroying this nation. This is an institutionally treasonous state, and Henry Novak and Stephen Ogilvie are its latest victims. That is the real story our political and media class are attempting to bury under a mountain of pearl-clutching theatrics, lies, and misdirection. They have blood on their hands. It's about time we said it. Clip from my monologue. 👇 Full monologue linked in the second post. 1/2

A 24 year veteran UK cop just quit and he says cases like the Henry Nowak murder were inevitable. He knew that would be the case after one of the many mandatory “anti-racism” trainings that drilled “the evils of the British Empire” and falsely claimed Windrush migrants were rounded up and shipped like slaves (they came voluntarily after WWII). He was the only one who pushed back. That’s when he realized policing had ditched colorblind justice for ideological capture. Neutrality is now “racist,” every incident gets filtered through race politics, and most importantly, officers fear the wrong accusation more than the truth. Two-tier policing by design. The predictable result of turning police into woke social justice enforcers instead of impartial peacekeepers.