for the budget announcements in parliament included a series of measures aimed at helping singaporeans make ends meet great in cash, and that's utility bill rebates, a more with a focus on supporting both low income and launch households. well, single voice of tiny, small economy that depend on external trade, trade is 3 times the size of the economy. so whether, you know the us economy or the launch key markets, forcing them for trade. if they see this, if we seem to have them slipping in the recession of consumption in these key market split, it will be felt in single for one week. exports in december, single, revise the down with its full year growth for 2023. but a major concern is china with its sluggish domestic consumption and next sports grow along, so we property market conditions, welds the 2nd largest economy, is one of the single polls key trading partners. and what happens in china has a significant bearing a home, the rest of asia, according to well,

bank report published in october a one percent reduction in china's growth. could track the region downward by as much as 0.3 percentage points. economists have for years predicted china would one day suppose to us as the world's largest economy. many now questions that i don't think it is going to happen. china has to work through this period and allow the uh, the housing market to stabilize whether it will be done in a couple of years. i don't think so. i think it could be 10 years before they actually sort of resolve this problem. and so i think we have to accept the fact that what we're going to be seeing slow growth in china, another agent, economic powerhouse japan lost its ranking to germany as the wells, the 3rd largest economy of to unexpectedly slipping into recession. contracting growth complicates the bank of japan's plans to raise interest rates of the 1st

time since 2007 or the po for, for a recession is the kept interest rates. at are the same time, but japanese yet is not performing well. a gets its, uh, the us dollar. so what are they going to do? i mean, the quote between the roof cannot place. now. the reasons, hopes of, of bryan to economic future could now hinge on india. its growth is expected, the outpaced china is both this the next. so the global economic recovery remains fragile, and central banks continue to tighten policy as ju, political tensions cost to shadow over economic prospects. world wide, patrick from singapore, which is here. and that's it from me. the news continues here, analysis 0. after apocalypse, maybe the they fled from the world's most secretive states. now young north koreans are

finding statement, fortune, celebrity influences, but shining a light on the home of kings and bring danger. one on one east meets north. korea's influence is coming out new lives online. despite the risk on al jazeera or a, i think people dig in the end of time for what is actually the end of time. the digital media environment is very, very different from the analog lines that went before. think of the way clocks used to be a clock was a big round thing with the 2nd hand that went slowly around. it had a narrative arc to it almost if you watch the clock. oh, it's a new minute, you know, and it's come around, compare that to a digital clock which is wait for a minute. there's no sense of the passage of time. we no longer have an organizing

narrative. people are so desperate for an organizing story that they would rather believe that everything is going to end. now in a fiery apocalypse, then then it's going to somehow just keep on going that we're going to stay in this perpetual. now the bill was included to everything that comes with the the, [000:00:00;00]

the news . hi. are you doing scrolling? hubbard, texting your friend, you minutes to say hello. i'm known for something called boom, scrolling reminders which were the tweets that i was manually writing and sending out as a starting at the beginning of the pen demik around april 2020, telling myself not to look at my phone to scrolling is very specifically the act of looking at your phone with the initial search for information and then being sucked in to information that is non productive and also you lose track of time. and then you also the utility of the information that you're receiving becomes smaller and smaller. you get sucked into petty arguments arm chair analysis.

the side it can be tempting to do scrolling means more time than you expected. is there an email you need to send food? you having you caught me didn't scroll and i didn't scroll so much. i've been trying to like, not do it, but it's hard not to. it makes you feel like i'm losing my mind when i come out of it and it's like 3 hours later and i'm like, what just happened. i assume scroll and it's more so like i'm in a trance. i have no conception of anything that's around me in my physical and then i kind of like, look up around, move my phone number. it's nice not to be like okay, i'm to wash dishes. let me find a long form video to watch. just like to talk has a 10 minute video picture now. so i just listen to people talking to me like we just washed the dishes

the during the initial year of the pen, demik, people were doing ridiculous things like buying huge amounts of stuff online, trying to over exercises within their apartments. and so for a lot of people, the easiest thing that they could have done was just stay up late and scroll on their thoughts because that felt like that was something within their control. the, there is absolutely a pervasively unhealthy relationship that many people have with technology and information. and i don't think that's necessarily their fault. many social

platforms are leveraging our attention in ways that facilitate this circumstance. the people falls from all over the world. central india underwhelming monsoon did el nino currents and failed to bring relief from the gateways. london, i'm seeing roughly a doubling of tents and make shift shelters popping up and parks and public spaces over the last 6 months. it's just these little things that you see on the corner of your eye that adds the overall feeling and things spiraling down. do you miss the rise of anxiety when you're confronted with the reality of living in a corrupt, dysfunctional civilization? that is at odds with the natural world,

you have taken some form of step towards awareness, suddenly a spokesperson for the apocalypse, that i will never hear the end of it up like where they may end up too. and it feels really like a huge combination of like every bad thing that's ever happened happening at once, right. in front of you. that feeling that kind of feeling of like, uh, world war 3 is coming or you know, something, something bad around the corner. i definitely definitely have that in the back of my mind. we live and such a weird time where we can see what's actually happening to people on our phones. it's not like, oh you're hearing this, you're hearing that you're watching videos the when the you crean invasion happened. i spent several hours reading about how

poorly russia had maintained its military based on photographic analysis of the wheels. it's one thing to know that ukraine is severely being affected, that most people don't need to know about how to analyze photographs of tanks and lack of tire maintenance among the russian military. like those kinds of levels. climate change wars, natural disasters, the economy, those bags. you can essentially read a page, these bases on each of those topics on a daily basis and never get to the bottom of it and feel completely overwhelmed. and lots of agency in respond. wilson to sign period. london's 1st cyberspace cafe and stupid cafeteria, joining billions of others hitting down the road to speaking somebody superhighway

the internet gave us new possibilities. you know it open the door to start thinking about living and working in a more peer to peer fashion. in order to foster a new kind of human culture. very exciting. and i mean like to like, one day when we gave the internet to people in the late eighty's early ninety's, it unleashed all sorts of creativity, a new possibilities. all it's going to be tremendous, says the dreams that we've had in the past. all thing able to access what's called the information superhighway, and perhaps do our shopping house on, on the information superhighway. do some banking, perhaps what happens though was once business people saw how exciting this, this internet was, they started to think about, well, how do we make money off this thing the best. so these already own into profit from this new wage. so in order to increase the probability of very particular money making outcomes on the net,

we took these technologies and turn them from tools set on least wild possibilities to tools that we used on people to make them behave more predictable. or if you're not the customer, you're the product. um, but we're more than that. where, where's the labor force? right? well that's, we are working for just social media company. when we dutifully enter in all our stuff and give them all our data, think of how you feel when you get off the internet, you're exhausted, that's work and it's not exhilarating, it's, it is labor. so really they're just looking for different ways to monetize any single human behavior and then sell that back to us as some form of in power. no, no, no, i don't have the name am i? so the model, but the more for that, more of the again, the bottom, i think with that more of a pop was the due to the most common thing i said was, hi, are you doing scrolling?

it made people feel present again in themselves, made them a little bit more aware of. maybe they had been on their phones for a long time. so i would often encourage people to take walks or do offline activities. there is very little guidance on what people can do, how it personally affects their lives, what they do, and do not need to know that is essential. and then also what people are doing in response to try to make those things less for a fake and do stay like. and i think that is a real issue with not only the media industry, but also forces that benefit from that chaos or that feeling of chaos among the general public. the. there are lots of people who have already felt a radical shift in their communities or countries even if you're in 1st world life, or in a privileged place,

you could go most days and not really encountered whatsoever. yet. in 2017, i was reaching kind of a peak where my collapse awareness made me want to have a broader, more intimate conversation with anyone. some of that probably was its own form of kind of romanticize a time that i'm in the, the time that i'm alive wanting it to be interesting. but i don't think especially the case anymore. i think we are an interesting times the the the eclipse separated is a online discussion for him. it's based in a larger platform called the read it. there's about close to $500000.00 subscribers . a been

a moderator for the last 4 years. the conversation is focused on the notion of collapse, which is defined as a radical reduction in population or complexity across multiple systems for a significant period in a relatively quick range of time, the beams current capital of the internet. i was interviewed for the journalist who wrote the article that called it that, i mean he pulled it from the ether. it was already a notion, but i think a lot of people missed the points. the, the whisper on the wind is that you're suffering immensely. the, the other thing is it seems like humanity is a bit star for it. it relationships with ending the reaction to that is to then this loudspeaker appears within culture and people that are trying to

point the spotlight in that direction. i had a single encounter with some billionaire doomsday peppers, you know, where i thought i was going to be giving a talk on the future, you know, digital technology and it was just 5 tech bros who wanted advice on their bunkers where to put them how to maintain control their security fours whether i thought they were reasonable plans or not. but it set me on a journey not to research billionaire peppers and their underground layers, but rather how did the wealthiest most powerful people in the world today come to believe that it's all ending? there's an obvious subset of the technology who will just be leveraging their wealth and an individualistic way to try to insulate themselves even further. i know people personally who left the states specifically to go to new zealand cuz it

sounded like congress file refuge the i think there is part of this sort of conflict of human consciousness that thinks of new zealand is a place that safe in the world from global 3, if you look at a bunch of different parts of popular fiction is this place that's considered as maybe the saving grace of humanity, the having grown up around here in queenstown. i already had sort of associated economic interest in how is changing i

mean in 2017, this journalist douglas rushed costs. i wrote a piece talking about conversations he'd had with wealthy, powerful people in silicon valley in particular about the way they were thinking about new zealand as a place to escape to in the case of tuesday, essentially from that there emerged reports on individuals and companies sort of saying, yeah, that's true. i've seen a bunch of there were companies that sell survival bunkers saying they'd ship them here. so they kind of spared a conversation with the new zealand. i developed a documentary trying to answer the question of whether there were survival bunkers here or no the, the doomsday people coming here to survive the will across the lips. yeah. it's a usual topic that pops up every now and again. uh, previous, last as an engineer i got a few calls about whether it was actually

a cruise or not, you know, bunk is in the, in the, in the outback sort of question or put it as an even mess i think is count. so we've never seen anything come across this asking for permission to put one in, but i mean, you think, is it something you actually asked permission for? it's out there, but we embrace on top of people in the. com, who is a european businessman. he bought a property out of queenstown. he has this parts from last year where he shows a picture of his property and the location looks very much like why and are preserved to me. and then he's got the solar panels down. the bottom minnes caption is really for world war 3, within a nuclear. somebody beside it. that's the heli pads. oh, the fusion of rolls royce, rolling through every time i roll up here,

i'm wearing someone's gonna run out of the gatehouse room at a me spoken with people who as kicks cuz they did and built the properties here. and they've talked about significant underground structures. this is the scenes or i guess of the conversation about the kinds of properties that are being built. we realize the survival bunker is secret on purpose in that building is don't want to be accessible. they're worried about economic clips leading to a society of people. essentially, they're worried that as their neighbors are going to turn on them, these are the people that are perpetuating our current economic system, profiting from it, and then preparing for its collapse, in spite of the impact that we have on everyone else in the world. the most simply,

the mindset is the idea that with more technology, you can solve the problems of the last technology and make more money in doing so. this idea that you can somehow escape from the problems you are creating by doing what you're already doing faster. and that's the basic rule of capitalism. it's a race that ultimately doesn't work because it turns out the real world kind of is limited. the long mask, just like the brightest minds in the world, like how much would it cost in the world $100.00. and they actually did the math, they like, took it seriously. they sit down and see it was $6000000000.00 we could like really interest this problem. he never did that. he said, like, tell me how much know do it in stevie spent $44000000000.00 on twitter. i mean,

like most parts of politic fiction. that's what it's trying to get hired on this, like when you strip away all the conveniences of our lives. like who are we really what we're talking about here with billy and e as in their priorities and how they are preparing for an end of days. it's a similar thing, isn't it? that sort of reveals who they are, what their priorities are, and what they do with the power and wealth that they have. by the end of it, i didn't really care if people head of survival bunk underneath their properties, because i did find it to be true that they were treating new zealand itself as the bunker, the landscape of clean sounds changed considerably. well said, but he needs coming in. more money is coming in. streets of shops, spies, it's safe place to come to the play space. if something does go wrong in the world, i think we've got bush x rays, i think with these more resources and opportunities up up in the forest from the hills. anything could happen in this country, right?

so as a key we were pretty well clear say pick out and go somebody. yeah, if we history. yeah. so the volume is going to have a bank because then we'll go bush, just basically the summer even if they have been cuz it's a ridiculous strategy because i mean, at some point you've got to come out and it, by that point, you've alienated yourself from the community that will remain here when you need more food, if you get sick, you know, if you need some company, it's easy to point out. the kind of i solution is tendencies of the billionaire class. we can see that and go, that's ridiculous. when something like kogan, the pandemic happens, we all start to see where is that tendency in ourselves? we start to think about other human beings the way the tech crows do. oh, they're dirty,

are contaminated and scary. i need to insulate myself from them when people start thinking about like prepping, if they're like tech bros. they think how much do do i have in my basement? how long can i ask? whom do i have done to keep my neighbors out? you can talk to any real pepper and they'll tell you the 1st thing you think about is, what are the other people on my block doing? they know that you can't prep a lot we, we're very interested by all these printers movements in the us. and we've got to discover these survival environments and friends and what we liked about it was not as hard as says us, we found out like people were more focusing on autonomy and that they believe that's what them within them could be the solution to react with more trust facing what what we called the

business side. actually they bring solutions. so there are nice people there and not like people who like hiding in their printers. and that's actually the exact opposite it's. they're more about sharing the experience of communities. very important as well. so we believe that the group is stronger than not to look into the excuse that did i think by the way the people to know the level of these um within the code it could be one the check. yeah. big. now i see the here i see to national so that because of the past, punky done the don't kaiser we also try to move it to,

to be able to we're not gonna do that. you get to care about every body we're all of is the good. so not a bad thing. it's a good thing, right? but that's really hard for a lot of us because then using, oh my god, you mean my fate is dependent on this on the health of the planet? yes. you, you, my faith is dependent on your faith. yes. read it is a community in, but only in the sense are extensive, which in online community can be for community occurs in actual relationships and people living systems, places that they're in their species going every day. we're losing species, you know, it's like you can't get much clearer than that. i think amenities is 30 will off a cliff and our ability to collectively proactively respond to that is,

is pretty neil. the loss of hope is not necessitate apathy, an action or an active as of, as they are framing its fun loses hope. that doesn't mean one stops taking action. to suggest that would mean that all action can only come from home, which has been found that even at 1st glance, little on a deeper analysis, it's a, it's a great time i think, to accrue the understanding and skills so that we can move forward into this transitionary phase, there's just so much distraction and i know people need escapes from that to not just walk off a cliff, the kitchen. okay. to embrace the beauty of this experience to a lot of times i feel so obligated to do something about climate change. and then i feel like if i'm, if i'm just writing books or giving talks or helping people experience all them, i'm like the, the band on the deck of the titanic playing as it goes down. but then i think what's more beautiful than being the band on the deck of the titanic,

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last i've gone health in one time will be retraces steps. revisit cuz that's it. that's by the echoes of background with this documentary on the jersey to these called church solutions. that gives us no hope for future that we have to find creative solutions. not us. turn our backs. i don't think that has a number. think about it as a person, person yourself and that person shares. so as you can see for this is my us, my life, or at least in my life and all the stages we want. we want to break because the women and my country doesn't actually become about to on we are not denies all of who we are human beings and deserves to be treated equally. we are walking in the footsteps, our ancestors, whatever has been done before,

can be done as long as a human being is doing it. you just have to keep pushing because no one else can see. the vision is clear as you do. the scenes of desperation near the rock that crossings, palestinians suffering for starvation protest against israel's blockade of 8 supplies. the i'm thorough venue, it's good to have you with us. this is elza 0 live from the also coming up. the international court of justice says the situation and rossa calls for the urgent

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