california fighting against all of this . she saw the outlinery and very y . she joins us tonight. the book t she s the author of the book the bodies of others the new authoritarians covid-19 in the war against the human. and we will thanks so much for coming on tonight.e what when you see what s happening in shanghai, which has got to be one of the most certainly att scale one of the biggest violations of human rights ever. twenty five million people and the administration has nothing. what do we learn from that ?g i mean, you re not t wrong to se this is the future a and it s nt just the future in shanghai. it s the future for us and the future throughout the west unless we continue to fight back the way we t have here in l.a. in this to the mandates rally. 2020 was the story right. it launched a narrative and the narrative is you can restrain billions of people, locklion thm in their homes, inject them against their will masks and against their will destroyga their economies, sup
the main threat.e the if you re the head of the communist party of chinail and you re trying to run a highly volatile country of peoplent four billion from beijing, naturally your top concern always will be shanghai. shanghai is the ones placend a meaningful insurrection might start and that s especially true this year. xi jinping, the chinese autocrat, is set to take a third consecutive termo beginning in the fall. now that was not supposed towe happen. there were term limitserm limita ,but four years ago the chinese communist party did away with those term limits and xi jinping can now rule the country forever even in china. that is a controversial move is a china expert callede the tarsha kassam put it quote from beijing s perspective,he there is no higher priority than stability ahead of the party congress this fall. this is the closest you mightht come to seeing campaign season in china. oh , there it is right there. a campaign season, even an authoritarian country.
going? well, here are pictureshose of a quarantine camp in china. tha the child you just sawyo mayu t there nowe many thousands ofen chinese citizens are at this camp. mattresses are strewn on the floor of cells. there ss no water.one there s just one toilet. just days ago the inmates you see here, we re living ordinaryt lives in their own homes now they re in prison. what happenedhe? pe the lives they left behind. what happened to the dogs and catsca they left at home? well, chances are chinese c police beathi those dogs and cas to death on the street. that s happening tonight allss over shanghai, a mass slaughter of pets and we didn t even toe. show this to you.nd we t it s too horrible, butho it s also real and we thought you should know the kovik prevention worker was caught on camera bashing to death a pet corgi. apparently this happened after the pets owner had tested reportedly positive for covid-19 and taken away to c
actually just a flat out fascistic tyrant. so too was just preamble. and so now shanghai is the next step and the surveillance ofla us these machines is the nextnc step and the injecting of children by force in california it s california is always the tip of the spear is going to be rolled outbed across the country just like i warned vaccine passports could be rolled out across the country and there s nothing now youtr know, with thisy. script in plae to prevent this kind of d crackdown lockdown down from happening again in american citieses n. and you re right to worry about the midterms given the history of totalitarianism, there s no reason to believe that the midterms which to deliver a resounding defeat to t the biden administration are going to be allowed to unfold without an emergency w and thata emergency keeps us all at homet all the better. so i just to want to say for people who don t know washington state launched
words of of a western journalit called jepp girlyman who is apparently stuck in shanghai, quote, this is the biggest, he richest, most international city in china and peopleci are starving without medicine, without freedom. parents are separatedme from their children. the military is on the streets hasshanghai s optimism but it to a halt. but it s s worse w than that . some in shanghai are so desperate they are crying out for food. watchtc and people are complaining that stores have run out of food and it s nearlyo impossible to schedule deliveries because couriers keep up with the demand.e one manma in shanghai documentif the shortages on twitter says he has three deliveries that were booked to deliver todayy. . all three were canceled. social media videos not verified by nbc news described as protest by people desperate a to get food and medicine store shelves cleared out because one man on the street yelling what am i supposed to buy? what am i going to eat?