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Fireworks, Papal Horse & Chips’ Hecatomb
Possible Fireworks
Salve Maria!
On our way to church this morning, we always pass by the Air Force base here in North Dakota, but this morning, 10 B-52s took off as we traveled by.
Hoping we will not see soon fireworks around the globe.
In Mary's Heart,
E.S.
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Papal Horse
I much prefer see the Pope riding a horse, like a man – the medieval Popes rode mules – than kissing babies on that stupid popemobile, like an old woman.
P.O.
A Polish man has donated a purebred Arabian horse to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the weekly General Audience, saying he was inspired by the photo of the Augustinian Pope on horseback in Peru. Other donors have already gifted the Pope a white motorcycle and an electric car. Now, Pope Leo XIV has received a white horse as a gift.
Proton, a purebred Arabian, was given to the Pope on Wednesday by Andrzej Michalski, owner and founder of the Michalski Stud Farm, in Kołobrzeg-Budzistowo, Poland.
An idea inspired by a photo from Peru.
“When I saw the photos of the future Pope on horseback in Peru, the idea came to me that I wanted to give him a beautiful Arabian horse—one that would be worthy of him, and white, because white naturally corresponds to the Pope’s white cassock,” Mr. Michalski told Vatican News.
He explained that this gesture was his way of expressing gratitude and responding to the Pope’s appeal to strengthen love through concrete actions.
Read more here
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A Chips’ Hecatomb?
A chastisement of epic proportion is about to break wide open upon the unsuspecting masses.
Key supplies needed by auto manufacturers across Europe and North America are ending.
The semiconductor industry is experiencing its most acute geopolitical crisis since the pandemic, one that exposes the fragility underlying decades of globalised manufacturing. At its centre is Nexperia, a Dutch-headquartered chipmaker that has become caught in the escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing, with production stoppages now looming as a genuine threat across Europe and North America within weeks rather than months.
The repercussions are staggering to consider.
Within weeks the catastrophe will become apparent to all and it springs from Trump's desire to punish China -- but the punishment instead will be borne en masse by Europeans and North Americans.
The scale of the crisis cannot be overstated. Nexperia produces hundreds of millions of chips annually across a sprawling portfolio of discrete semiconductors, diodes, transistors and MOSFETs (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors, a type of semiconductor device used for switching and amplifying electronic signals) that perform unglamorous but absolutely vital functions in vehicles.
These chips operate everything from switches to steering wheel controls, embedded in the electrical systems and power management units that modern vehicles depend upon. The company operates manufacturing facilities in Hamburg, Manchester and Nijmegen, with a combined capacity exceeding 50 billion components annually. Yet supply is about to evaporate.
See how all this transpired and boomerangs massively with loss of these critical components because of the Dutch government's outright seizure of Nexperia, a Chinese owned company in the Netherlands.
Worst yet -- no substitution for Nexperia exists in the automotive world!
What renders Nexperia's position so indispensable is not that it produces cutting-edge semiconductor technology. Quite the opposite. The company specialises in mature, proven technologies that have been refined over decades. These so-called legacy chips possess advantages that newer semiconductors cannot replicate.
They carry stringent automotive qualification certifications such as AEC Q100 and Q101, which demand extraordinary reliability standards. Switching to alternative suppliers means recertifying components through lengthy homologation processes that cannot be compressed into days or weeks.
More critically, Nexperia's products are embedded within preassembled components supplied by tier 1 manufacturers such as Bosch, Denso and others. The chips do not arrive as standalone elements that suppliers can easily swap out. They are soldered into complex assemblies that feed directly into vehicle electrical architecture. Tracing Nexperia components through these nested supply chains represents a formidable intellectual challenge, made more acute because many tier 1 suppliers themselves lack complete visibility into their own subcomponent sourcing. A single Nexperia chip failure cascades through entire production lines.
The idiocy of this seizure and the enormous harm should have been obvious -- which makes me ask whether the action was a deliberate one, of which history is replete, of a chain of events set into motion by governments as a means of punishing their own citizens.
Life as we have known it is definitely about to change. With all that is currently going on in Church and State, is it any wonder that the eyes of our beloved Madonna as Our Lady of Good Success express such genuine sadness?
What all is She seeing?
May She ever be close to us...
E.Z., Ph. D.
Posted October 28, 2025
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After reading today's entry regarding the 'throne' created for King Charles at the Vatican, I had only one thought. The two-word demand that Freemasonry has always had for the Church, "Knuckle Under," has been obeyed.
S.S.S.