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I hope someone finds this.

No one said or did anything to stop them.

It's too late for me.

I was alone.

It may not be too late for you.

Come on!

America's changed, you understand that?

I think to create the perfect union of democracy

has been a struggle...

Dear passengers,

people who behave disorderly in public areas

will be punished according to regulations,

and their behaviour will be recorded.

To avoid any negative record of personal credit,

please follow the relevant regulations.

So, whatever else happens now, it's all in a day's work.

I can still remember my grandma.

I used to help her out.

My grandma used to say her memories

were slipping through her fingers like sand.

She said, we didn't know it,

but that was happening to all of us too.

She said soon, there'd be no past, no history.

She said it was the truth, and she didn't care who heard.

Then one day, they came for her,

and she was gone.

That stabbed to the heart of me,

it silenced me.

I never spoke again.

I ran.

I'm still running.

My life's turned into one of those sci-fi comics

I used to read.

I live off-grid.

My place is in Shoes, on the lower ground.

There are others here.

Survivors.

Renegades.

Know what I'm saying? Anyone know why I'm saying this?

There's a tunnel up to Fragrances,

where the old entrance was.

It's one of the six ways up to the surface.

Hey, Ghost.

Going up?

Stay safe.

I met this guy, Jack,

dumpster-diving one night.

It was me who got him in here.

Hey, I've found an old picture you might like.

He's got these goofy, puppy dog eyes.

I'll show it to you later.

He's an AI.

Stay safe.

He listens and watches everything.

You can't trust anyone anymore.

When you glean up on the surface, after curfew,

you have to be quick.

You avoid the dogs,

you dodge the street militia.

Move north, disperse from the area north.

This is now a civil disturbance.

Failure to do so could result in arrest and the use of force,

including riot patrol agents and...

People thought the world would end.

But the world goes on.

It's us who will end.

... must leave the area immediately.

Failure to comply with this order may subject you to arrest

and may subject you to the use of riot patrol agents

or impact weapons.

This is the police department.

You are violating state imposed curfew.

Go home or you will be arrested.

Gleaning is how we get by.

We pick over the leftovers, the broken, the rejected...

anything we can use.

Thanks, Ghost. I love it!

Those puppy dog eyes.

I love this hat.

I have no mercy or compassion in me

for a society that will crush people,

and then penalise them for not being able to stand up

under the weight.

How did we get here?

How did we let this happen?

In the late 1980s, early 1990s,

you were in a moment of democratic triumph.

We're now in a democratic recession,

and it's endemic in Eastern Europe,

in Western Europe,

in the United States, India,

the Philippines.

This is a new age of impunity.

Some countries are actually just going back to the age

of elite power.

The financial system is rocked to its foundation,

as top Wall Street institutions...

If you have an economic crisis,

and/or a refugee crisis,

these demagogues rise.

They're promising to protect you from a threat

that doesn't exist.

You have an incredibly dishonest right-wing media,

who pushes disinformation.

Hate and fear are being sown

online across the world,

spreading lies paid for with illegal cash.

It's subversion.

What Putin saw, is, he's like,

“Holy shit, I can hack this system,

and then control global capitalism, and politics.”

There are transnational oligarchs

funding dark money think-tanks

and fake institutions.

Americans for prosperity.

Renowned Washington think-tank, the Cato Institute.

The Institute of Economic Affairs.

They're lobby shops, set up to influence politics

on behalf of ideological billionaires and big business.

It's disrupting democracy.

Social media has enabled the rise of these populist

authoritarian-style leaders.

We will root out the communists, Marxists,

fascists and the radical left thugs

that live like vermin within the confines of our country.

We will make America great again.

So, you would say that white supremacist tied publications

meet a rigorous standard for fact-checking?

Facebook's site has been used to incite violence

against Rohingya refugees in Myanmar.

Mr Modi has driven Muslims of this country to the wall.

I have a particular responsibility,

it is to end the free movement of people once and for all.

Europe is in the heat of a battle

about the future of democracy,

and Hungary is now the front line.

It's not just Putin and Orbán,

there's an alliance of dictatorships.

There's no subtlety

in Netanyahu's ambition to claim all of the Palestinian state.

There's a global effort by people in power

to stay in power.

They care more about maintaining power for their clique,

than a broader sense of common good.

The volume of killing here is quite extraordinary.

In the 80 or so days that Duterte has been in power,

there's now been an average of somewhere between 35 and 40

police killings of drug-pushers and drug users every day.

So no qualms about killing killers?

I'm a journalist. This is my 37th year as a journalist.

What's the role of journalism? Journalism, the mission:

holding power to account, public and private.

As President, you now also defend the constitution.

-Yes. -You break the law,

you threaten to break the law.

You said you had killed a year ago, right?

You told me that,

and yet you now have the task of

keeping the rule of law

and you said you would do that also. How do you...?

When Duterte took office,

our institutions crumbled.

He became the most powerful person within six months.

We continue doing our reporting.

On the worst day of the violence,

when murder and looting were taking place

all across the city, we saw policemen just standing by,

watching what was happening

but doing nothing to try to stop it.

When you look back over the last months,

you've been the leader of this state

through a very difficult period,

do you think there's anything that you should have done differently?

Yes, one area where I was very, very weak,

and that was how to handle the media.

He doesn't like criticism,

he's self-obsessed,

he's a megalomaniac,

and I say that all the time.

My name is Rana Ayyub.

I'm a global opinions writer with the Washington Post,

I'm an investigative journalist.

I write stuff which the government does not like.

Mr Modi is going from strength to strength.

He's become a leader of anti-Muslim

bigots across the country.

I spoke about the fact that

here is a man who's an authoritarian,

whose only politics is his prejudice of Muslims,

whose only politics is persecution of Muslims,

and if this man comes to power,

he is going to repeat that,

and that's exactly what has transpired

since Modi came to power in 2014.

I believe that I'm standing up for just bearing witness.

I don't even want to do anything.

I don't want to be anybody's hero.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal.

I just wanted to speak my truth.

Nigel, Nigel, this way!