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Devils Tower is a National Monument situated in Wyoming and featured in the climax of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Devils Tower, located in Crook County, Wyoming, was the first natural formation in the United States to be declared a national monument in 1906. Part of the Black Hills mountain range, the monolith was formed from cooled magma exposed through erosion and stands at 1,267 feet tall.

The Tower features heavily in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The film tells the story of several individuals’ experiences with extra-terrestrial phenomenon. Focusing on the experiences of Roy Neary, the story follows him from his initial encounter with a UFO to his growing obsession with visions of a mountain and desire to go there. After Neary’s actions grew more intense, his family leaves him. He decides to travel to Devils Tower with fellow UFO witness Jillian Guiler, whose son had been taken by the alien visitors. The Tower had been selected as the contact point, and the area was evacuated by the military under the guise of a chemical leak. Upon reaching the Tower and evading military capture, the two, along with a group from the United Nations and others who had encountered the aliens, witness the arrival of the extra-terrestrial mothership. After the aliens return previous abductees, Neary and others are chosen to go with the aliens to outer space.

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maybe it is for the aliens.

et phoning home needs something more substantial than:

A record player housing the buzzsaw blade and coat hanger assembly
Buzzsaw blade programmed with patterned holes in a painted surface
A fork
A knife
A coat hanger combined with the rope, fork, knife, bobby pins, buzzsaw blade and record player to form a wind driven ratchet device
Wired bobby pins linking buzzsaw blade to Speak & Spell. This allows the programmed buzzsaw blade to control the Speak & Spell automatically
An umbrella (with aluminum foil to create a satellite dish)
Speak & Spell toy (for sending signals)
Lantern battery and jumper wires (to power Speak & Spell)
A coffee can (attached to umbrella handle and filled with electrical wires inside to provide power)
A UHF Tuner is attached to the coffee can
A metal funnel and circuit boards from a fuzzbuster (actually an Autotronics Super Snooper) and transistor radio are mounted inside the coffee can and wired to UHF Tuner
A walkie talkie (to send radio waves through to the satellite. The walkie talkie is connected to the speak and spell and UHF Tuner)
Rope

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Tulip mania became a popular reference during the dot-com bubble of 1995–2001,[77][80] and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2010.[81][82] In 2013, Nout Wellink, former president of the Dutch Central Bank, described Bitcoin as "worse than the tulip mania", adding, "At least then you got a tulip, now you get nothing."[83] Despite the mania's enduring popularity, Daniel Gross has said of economists offering efficient-market explanations for the mania, "If they're correct [...] then business writers will have to delete Tulipmania from their handy-pack of bubble analogies."

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.[1] The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions".[2] A second edition appeared in 1852, reorganizing the three volumes into two and adding numerous engravings.[3] Mackay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style.

The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.

[4]In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important as the South Sea Bubble. In the 21st century, the mathematician Andrew Odlyzko pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as a leader writer in The Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash".[5][6]

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

The Butterfly Revolution — America Is Being Stolen

We’ve just witnessed this weekend, the minions of the unelected South African Elon Musk storming government buildings and taking control of government payment systems. He now has access to all the data of every single US citizen.
Welcome to the Butterfly Revolution. You’re doomed.

Once known by his online pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin is the intellectual backbone of a growing movement that sees democracy as an outdated, inefficient system in need of a full-scale replacement.
He has openly argued that the United States should abandon representative government in favor of a “monarchic CEO-state” where power is concentrated in the hands of a single, unelected leader.
In his vision, governance should function like a private company — efficient, centralized, and immune to public interference.

Their strategy is clear, too: use wealth and political influence to dismantle the current system, then install a new order where corporations rule, and the state exists solely to protect their interests.

The tech bros of Silicon Valley believe that the American empire is on the verge of collapse. They don’t just predict it — they want to speed it up. Their vision? A world where nation-states crumble, replaced by corporate-controlled city-states where they make the rules.

His theory of governance, which he calls The Butterfly Revolution, is a step-by-step plan to dismantle American democracy and install a CEO-state.

Campaign on autocracy — Politicians should openly admit democracy has failed and position themselves as strongmen.

Purge the bureaucracy — Fire all non-loyal government employees and replace them with pre-vetted operatives.

Ignore the courts — Dismantle judicial oversight by simply refusing to comply with court rulings.

Control the police and military — Centralize law enforcement under a federalized system controlled by loyalists.

Shut down media and universities — Gut elite institutions like the New York Times and Harvard to remove independent thought.

Mobilize the base — Send mobs into the streets whenever an agency tries to obstruct them.

While Yarvin provides the philosophy, Project 2025 — developed by The Heritage Foundation — is the logistics manual for making it happen. The plan outlines:

Firing 50,000 federal employees and replacing them with loyalists.

Reshaping the legal system so the executive branch can bypass checks and balances.

Dismantling regulatory agencies that oversee big tech and corporate interests.

Eliminating independent media and academia through defunding and hostile takeovers.

Advocating for a nationwide ban on abortion. It also seeks to eliminate access to emergency abortion and aims to establish fetal personhood in law.

Rescinding provisions of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970 (Title X), which offers reproductive healthcare services, so condoms, etc., are going to go on the black market folks.

Policies that undermine LGBTQ+ rights, including denying the existence of transgender individuals and rolling back civil rights protections related to gender identity and sexual orientation

Imagine a world where the government isn’t just corrupt — it doesn’t exist.
Where your ability to live in a city depends on a corporate subscription model.

Basic freedoms like privacy, protest, and free speech will be pay walled behind venture-funded governance. The poor and middle class are exiled to crumbling “red zones” while the elite build fortified luxury enclaves powered by crypto and AI.

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