Alan Watt - Redux #199 - "Who Writes the Page for Planned Outrage?" - Feb. 2, 2025

Media's Format and Presentation - News Anchors - Edward Bernays, Mass Marketing - PT Barnum and Self-Promotion - Hyped Emotive Topics - Simple War Propaganda - Technique of Left and Right - Plunder of Africa - Nigeria and Africom - Amalgamation of Countries into Globalized System - Creation of "Outrage" - UN, NATO and Prostitution Rackets - Definition of "Freedom" - Leveson Inquiry and Muzzling Journalists - Factory Towns - Well-Rewarded Bureaucrats - Bertrand Russell - Politically-Incorrect Questions - Free Trade - Using Memory and Logic - Symbol of the Pyramid and the Wasteland - Groups of Businessmen - Human Adaptation - Group Conformity - Use of Organizations - Fixed Populations - System of Interdependence - News "Over There" - Authoritarianism - "Democracy" and Voting - Study of Populations - Elite's Utopia - Identity Crisis and the Id - Controlled Society - Escapism into Fiction - History Down the Memory Hole - Global Dimming.

Transcript - "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt - "Who Writes the Page for Planned Outrage?" - May 11, 2014https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_1435_Blurb_Who_Writes_the_Page_for_Planned_Outrage_May112014.html

U.N. warns of executions and gang rapes as war in Congo escalates (2025)
https://news.yahoo.com/news/u-n-warns-executions-gang-150141866.html

A Conflict in Congo (2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/briefing/a-conflict-in-the-congo.html

Zijin plans lithium production in Congo from early 2026
https://www.miningweekly.com/article/zijin-plans-lithium-production-in-congo-from-early-2026-2025-01-07

How long has the CIA been stirring the pot in the Congo? (1981)
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/magazine/the-cia-and-lumumba.html

‘A thick web of CIA operations and dirty tricks’ (2024)
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thick-web-cia-operations-and-dirty-tricks

Sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers

Bosnia: The United Nations, human trafficking and prostitution (2002)
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/08/bosn-a21.html

Meanwhile, what's happening in your own area? ‘Not just a number’: How annual count snapshots homelessness in North Texas
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/not-just-a-number-how-annual-count-snapshots-homelessness-in-north-texas/ar-AA1yfIdp

‘Teen whisperer’ provides hope for Texas human trafficking survivors
https://www.tjjd.texas.gov/teen-whisperer-provides-hope-for-texas-human-trafficking-survivors/

(Texas) Public Education Bills: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
https://www.texasobserver.org/public-education-bills-lege-2025/

Videos used to illustrate:

1942 Circus Acts: "Here Comes the Circus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaXoqz02aQQ

Trudeau warns of "forceful response" if Trump pulls trigger on tariffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lzOtyU-aCo

US Respond to China's Important Material Trade with Strong Moves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVmZQSkYOY4

DR Congo's army slows M23 rebels' southern march
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIzzoB4fcM

Why the UN Has a Sexual Abuse Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxVUpGCeyu0

Conflict and Coltan in Eastern Congo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5VZtJDYWNM

Mines of hell: risking their lives for coltan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZAUC12iedc

Army Partners US To Establish Special Operation Command
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MptZl3asOU

The Most Infamous Company Towns in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfdgHMIg4U

Inside the Congo cobalt mines that exploit children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJ8me22NVs