katya: it is sidelined at the moment, france and the u.k.ken the lead and rightly so, since they can act and do things whilst the german chancellor olaf scholz is a lame-duck chancellor, we've seen that in london, greeted with a friendly handshake, not the enthusiastic hype that emmanuel macron got. they need to hit the ground running on defense and geopolitics. tom: what is the ability of german need to push through defense spending before march 25? katya: so the urgency is the old parliament is sitting so old majority is in place whilst new one will have a large section of the far right and far left and afd came in second, in the election. they get 1/5 of seats. far left made huge gains in both of them are anti-ramping up rhetoric and action against russia and support for ukraine so they will form such a large minority they can block funding so can they do something before the new parliament to wrap up spending? there is a sense that new parliament reflects what people voted for, so addressing with the old one might cause some public anger

the katya, the reason why i say this is so important is because we're almost at a breaking point right? us and the planet we can't really afford to go on like this. would you say this context of under consumption becomes a natural thing to gravitate towards 100 percent? of course we do have to just change our relationship with things like clothes and plastic and all of that. but i feel like even more important and we do have to put more pressure on the manufacturers because the reason there is culture of over consumption is because they're able to over produce and go unchecked once you're able to produce and have giant profit margins. you can just make as many globes or plastic, whatever, as you want, without worrying about who's buying them. you just have to now invest more money into creating the culture that wants these quotes. so really does start from the top where if there weren't these many close to these maybe things being produced at the rate at which they're being produced, they wouldn't really be in need to manufacture this culture that concerns consumers, consumers, consume

they don't really work necessarily, katya. i want to bring you in because you actually bring a very important aspect to this conversation in the work that you do with it or a foundation. can you 1st break it down for us? what does the foundation do and how does it relates to this new trend, asking people to maximize the utility on their purchase is you know, ok before i can really dive into the work we do have to or i feel like i have to explain the phenomenon that is wasted colonialism and i do want to stress that i don't use the word colonialism lately. i feel like we've gotten to a point where we're almost desensitized to it, so i don't want to use that lightly. so i would like to give a little historical context. sure, please choose about it is, as the fashion industry moves towards this past fashion model, there's go, they're going, there's going to be more ways they're creating this culture where are trees in clothes which aren't meant to be consumable, as consumables. and so once you are done with the clothes, they have

jessica washington before subject katya exhausted and overwhelmed. these young, the dimensions of finally back on home soil of to be trafficked into me. and we also happy to be back in into an issue the conditions in the young model of the toner. but i feel like our lives were not deposited there. they made me pretend to be a woman online to get some money from ment to hundreds of thousands of people have been translated into criminal compounds in the southeast asian country and forced to engage in online scans. many had been tricked into slang to thailand before being forced to cross the border into me and the meaning of that money got to add that there are nodes with work operatives, yusef as customer service as a program or, or work in the gaming sector. but then they're forced to commit fraud. so the international term is forced criminal justice. plastic thought with me in my, in a stage of conflict and chaos since a military coup in 2021 has become a magnet for criminal syndicates. research correct down on these criminal compounds, coordinated b