Remember, remember, this fifth of November, not to celebrate bonfire night in California. Here, a recent legal case should really set our political sirens going about the potentially dire impact of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) measures upon local fire safety standards. Back in 2022, a Chinese fireman, Gabriel Shin, was beaten up by a colleague with a hydrant wrench outside his home, breaking his arms. Only when a neighbour threatened the assailant with a gun did he back off.
Naturally, being so badly beaten, the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) gave Shin plenty of time off – namely, forever. Shin says the SFFD took away his workplace health insurance cover after he refused to let the matter lie and cease to press charges, even receiving a reported “direct order” to do so. Eventually, he was “let go” by his employers.
By contrast, said Shin’s attorney, his client’s alleged assailant never so much as missed a paycheque, nor faced any internal disciplinary procedures. Why not? Well, the wretch with the wrench was called Robert Muhammad, and he happened to be a black man (and presumably a Muslim too, given his surname?) Shin was ‘only’ Chinese, though, and therefore occupied a rung lower down upon the hierarchical DEI rescue-ladder of codified ethnic victimhood. This was Shin’s view, anyway, and he decided to sue the SFFD for “Race and Colour Discrimination” – although, according to this legal summary of his efforts, he wasn’t really very successful, with courts refusing to allow several of his complaints to proceed.
According to media summaries of the lawsuit’s original content, Muhammad had displayed “dangerous volatility” and “a history of threatening, bullying and aggressive behaviour” for over a decade, whilst “high-ranking SFFD officials knew of this history yet failed to take any corrective action”, supposedly even going “so far as to attempt to interfere with a criminal investigation to cover up the violent crime”. It is said Shin’s superiors even refused to supply police with a photo of Muhammad, thereby delaying his arrest. Not until this October did a judge finally announce the spanner-maniac’s ultimate punishment: no jail, just enrolment upon a “mental health diversion programme” instead.
Black, mad, violent, possibly Muslim… what an ideal employee Muhammad was in DEI terms! Was this why he was hired into the SFFD in the first place?
The PC Brigade
Certain San Francisco residents certainly feel less than well-disposed towards the traditionally white and male make-up of their city’s fire brigade, at least to go by a quite astonishing online essay, ‘Why I Hate Firemen’, by an SF resident named Molly Martin, which features inflammatory far-Left anti-fireman rhetoric like the following:
I hate firemen. Not firewomen, only the men. And not the firemen of colour. Only the white men. Whenever we have occasion to honour firefighters… I stand back and think to myself, I hate these mofos. When I tell anyone I hate firemen, the reaction is always shock… [But] I’m sticking with my prejudice, formed by years of interaction with woman-hating racists in the San Francisco Fire Department. I may never get over it… The idea that firefighters are heroes to be worshipped not only had an unfortunate effect on the culture at the firehouses, inflating already overinflated egos. It also made opposing the white men more difficult. They used the positive stereotype to their advantage, calling on the testimony of citizens whose lives and property had been saved.
The bastards! Just imagine that: saving people’s “lives and property” before accepting thanks and praise from those they had helped. Is there no limit to how low such sickos could possibly sink? Not in Molly’s estimation.
Formerly a closed shop for those with straight Anglo-Saxon penises, once women and non-whites were eventually allowed in too, alleges Molly, all the neo-Nazi firemen started persecuting their new colleagues, pooing in their boots before call-outs, drawing swastikas and, supposedly, trying to throw women and ethnics off roofs. They were also homophobic, spending their time between fires watching 100% non-gay, straight pornography (albeit no doubt some did involve the occasional lesbian guest-appearance) whilst drinking beer. Supposedly, the leading cause of such booze-addled firemen’s deaths was drunkenness – alcoholics tend not to be good on ladders.
The man who solved all this was Willie Brown, the black former San Francisco Mayor, down whose well-greased pole none other than Kamala Harris herself once slid, her youthful 1990s affair with the man helping launch her own DEI-fuelled career in politics. In 1996, Brown appointed a fellow named Bob Demmons, head of the San Francisco Black Firefighters Association (SFBFA), to be Chief of the SFFD, with a mission to clean the place up, diversity-wise.
Once Brown had switched on his intersectional hose and flooded the SFFD with DEI hires, the scene was set for Jeanine Nicholson later to be appointed as its Chief, the woman in charge at the time of Shin’s close encounter with a highly diverse hydrant wrench. Nicholson announced her sudden retirement from this position in July, a mere month after Shin gave his first public interview about the case, citing “unforeseen medical issues” (she did once have cancer).
Gay Firemen Polish Helmets
Despite having no hose of her own, Jeanine Nicholson was by all accounts a very good firefighter, who was appointed on merit. Yet this was not how she was marketed to the media when being made SFFD Fire Chief in 2019. In which publications would you expect to be able to read about this happy news? The San Francisco Chronicle? Naturally. American Firefighting Monthly? Of course! Leading U.S. gay magazine the Advocate? Um, no…
Ah, but, as a piece by the Advocate’s unacceptably named hack Jacob Ogles had it in its headline, ‘San Francisco Just Swore In First LGBTQ Fire-Chief: Jeanine Nicholson Has Made Herstory’. “Despite San Francisco’s long history of [being] a gay haven,” the outlet complained, “no out [queer] firefighter ever rose to the top post in the department,” just several secretly gay ones. But, thanks to the intervention of DEI-obsessed London Breed, the current marvellously melanated Mayor of SF who appointed Nicholson, that had all now changed.
Nicholson has a degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Colgate College, where, to judge by some of the minority-worshipping tweets the SFFD put out under her leadership, she had really brushed up on her knowledge of intersectionality:
You Can Do It When You BEQ It
As further evidence for their failed prosecution, Gabriel Shin’s lawyers should have produced a 2020 encomium to Nicholson in BEQPride Magazine, BEQ meaning ‘Business Equality’. Here, Nicholson tells us she was recruited (into firefighting, not lesbianism) by a female firefighter at a Gay Parade in 1991. This proves how, in order to achieve her current position in life, “I stood on the shoulders of people who came before me.” Is she a dwarf now, too?
“Diversity and inclusion are top of mind for Nicholson,” BEQPride tells us. As a result, “Nicholson places high importance on increasing recruitment and visibility within the city’s diverse neighbourhoods”. But why? Who sane cares whether their firefighter is a homosexual? How will one even know, unless he or she arrives on the scene dressed in bright pink latex, rather than the usual yellow dayglo? Because, the article continues:
The importance of having a diverse department cannot be overstated in Nicholson’s opinion. She remembered earlier in her career she was called to assist with the death of a Chinese woman… [Emergency services] draped a cloth over the woman’s body but her family insisted that the cloth not cover her head because it was part of their cultural practice. “They wanted her to be able to see her way to where she was going [i.e., the Chinese afterlife, not the nearest morgue], but that’s not something any of us knew,” Nicholson said. “Having people from different backgrounds in the department means they’re trusted in different ways that maybe we weren’t before because we represent the community. Diversity helps us serve the community better.”
Perhaps the best way to actually “serve the Chinese community better” would be not to continue employing mad people who enjoy attacking them with large metal implements, just because they happen to be black, though? That’s what Gabriel Shin might have been expected to say, anyway. I wonder how that Chinese woman Nicholson mentioned died in the first place? A large wrench-wound to the skull, perhaps?
Bonfire of the Vanities
This may all seem a distant concern, but sadly, just like with AIDS, what starts in San Francisco doesn’t stay in San Francisco. Here’s the edited highlights of a 2018 piece by a probable Russian homosexual named Corinne Bendersky, from Harvard Business Review, demonstrating how far the DEI rot has now spread (emphasis mine):
Picture a typical firefighter. Who comes to mind? If you imagined a white man, that’s understandable: 96% of U.S. career firefighters are men, and 82% are white… Many fire departments recognise that their lack of diversity is a problem and say they’re committed to increasing racial and gender diversity… Yes, they’re fighting fires, which requires climbing ladders, hauling hoses and carrying victims from burning buildings. But this is only a small subset of the job… To succeed as a firefighter, stereotypically masculine traits like brawn and courage are simply not enough… And yet, in my research on reducing gender bias and my work conducting training on general diversity and inclusion with fire departments, I find that… when the topic of female firefighters came up, the importance of physical strength was consistently and spontaneously invoked to justify the relative absence of women in the fire service, but the importance of compassion (a female-stereotyped trait) was rarely, if ever, brought up to argue for bringing more women into the profession.
In what sense is “compassion” more valuable in a firefighter than “physical strength”? So that grieving mothers can be told by an agreeably weepy all-female fire-crew just after the tragic event “So sorry we couldn’t save your baby, we were too weak to put the ladder up. Here’s a nice batch of home-made cookies to cheer you up instead! Sorry they’re all burned, by the way.”
Here is the sadly more realistic assessment of a (necessarily) anonymous male U.S. firefighter about the actual effects of such DEI hiring practices:
Outcome based hiring is nothing short of a joke and a disaster waiting to happen. The fire department I work for hired several female firefighters that are very short and they have trouble raising ladders… [They] struggle primarily due to a lack of upper body strength more so than being short. As the incident commander, I have to assign the crew with those females to a job other than ladder work. This is unacceptable to me due to the nature of firefighting where time is essential in most of what we do. Life safety/rescue is number one at every fire scene we respond to. Delaying a rescue because the female crew is incompetent is what my city’s management has made as its top priority.
I suppose, as this is anonymous, some could accuse the whistleblower of just making this up. Others would prefer to guess there’s no smoke without fire.
No Wonder London’s Burning
And this deadly woke bin-fire is now raging here in the U.K. too. In 2019, Lincolnshire Fire Brigade axed kids’ TV character Fireman Sam as their mascot because he wasn’t Firewoman Samantha, bemoaning “the subconscious image the term ‘fireman’ has created as an issue in our recruitment”. Another Fire Chief further complained that “most of the job is nothing like it is portrayed” in the animated show in question; no, and Postman Pat never has to deal with any letter-bombs, either.
Also in 2019, London Fire Brigade (LFB) sprayed out the following tweet after a fictional 2D talking animal in an episode of Peppa Pig dared refer to “firemen”, not “firefighters”:
They could always pop a helmet on her own head and enlist Peppa herself as a recruitment mascot, I suppose – although, from a DEI perspective, that may also have the unintended side-effect of discouraging any future Muslim applicants. Is #Firefightingsexism really now as important as #Firefightingfires?
On the LFB website’s “Workforce Diversity” section, they claim they need millions more women/blacks/Muslims/robots/vampires to join the workforce because, “Some of the most vulnerable people in society come from diverse backgrounds and we need to understand their lifestyles in order to safeguard them against risk of fire.” Otherwise London’s many Indian females might burn themselves alive when committing suttee or something.
As far back as 2005, the LFB had attempted to recruit lesbians by running adverts in gay magazines with the tagline “Fancy pulling an older woman… Out of a car, from a burning building or just out of danger?” Just imagine the LFB running an ad in Escort aimed at heterosexual males humorously implying one of the main benefits of the job was that it would get you free sexual favours from grateful non-incinerated housewives.
Supposedly, all these DEI measures will have no impact whatsoever on the subsequent quality of recruits. Not so. In 2019, it emerged that, in pursuit of a wholly arbitrary goal of having 60% female recruits and 35% non-white ones, the West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) had allegedly doctored its in-house recruitment tests.
One may have thought the best way to ensure large numbers of black and brown applicants would have been simply to remain based in the West Midlands, but instead chiefs altered entry tests so that white males would need to score 70% to pass, but all others only 60%. How can this not lead to a lowering of recruitment standards? The wokery-ridden WMFS is reportedly not currently a happy ship; maybe it just made the wrong DEI hires?
Yet again, actual human lives are being put at potential risk here, and all for the sake of some stupid woke ideology. DEI makes people DIE!
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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Shall they be banned from society if they refuse? I mean the fact is they are getting jabbed again because they are no longer showing signs of being vaxxed. So…..
Let’s hope so. Let’s hope that when the penny drops, they realise they will NEVER be “fully” vaccinated if they don’t keep up with the stabs. This is what it will take to wake up some more…but not all!
Some great insights here;
https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/09/the-snake-oil-salesmen-and-covid-zero.html?m=1#.YTVxQdcLqsk.mailto
Really great link. Thank you. I am reading through some of the other Julius posts.
I can’t wait to see the impact of boosters on vaccine passports. Sit back and enjoy the show
Not a problem for those who don’t have family and friends. Besides my partner, all my friends and family have been fully reprogrammed by the government terrorism and will be in the scrum to get their next dose of poison. I’m afraid I’ll not be joining you to enjoy the show.
I was referring to the impact on the vaccine passports rather than the impact on people receiving the boosters. I too am very concerned about the latter. But the vaccine passport system will not be able to cope with the boosters, who’s due to have them and who’s “out of date”. Many people will refuse. The proportion of “fully vaccinated” will dwindle with each successive booster. This will be the government’s downfall. Give it a couple of years, and I predict this house of cards will collapse.
I like your optimism. Let’s hope the collapse happens in a much shorter timeframe though!
Sadly, though, the vaccine poison will be integrated into society and bodies. Th longer term effects of the vaccine on health will be apparent but dismissed as not connected to the vaccines. By then they’ll have got to the younger children and maybe even babies.
>The proportion of “fully vaccinated” will dwindle with each successive booster.
THAT IS the plan. No travel for proles.
As Alanis Morissette said “Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?”
The loudest voices in support of vaccines, boosters, vaccine passports and lockdowns to keep them safe, seem to come from people who – even prior to March 2020 – rarely went to the pub, were past going to nightclubs (if they ever went at all) and didn’t go to crowded sports stadia.
Theirs may be the loudest voices in the media – but the real enthusiasm comes from the youth and younger element, who aren’t in the least danger but just see the jabs as their road to freedom. Many of them are also being paid for doing nothing, so don’t mind what is risibly called ”lockdown”.
My very elderly mum is already saying she won’t have a booster jab. I bet she’s not alone.
Mine won’t be having one either because the first two probably ended her life prematurely.
I’m sorry to hear that. My mum has deteriorated shockingly (and irreversibly) since her second injection. I wish she’d listened to me instead of her friends.
My husband is saying the same but then again, he said he wasn’t getting vaccinated yet did…
Hovering a claw over the ‘reset status’ button on all those passports must make Billy grin.
Do I need 3 now?
Or is it just the latest that’s required to activate the passports, if so, I guess I’ll hold out until I’m ready to escape the country, first and last go on the Russian roulette needle…. Or I could just get a dinghy.
Why are they bothering to wait for the JCVI? They’ll just do what they want anyway.
Watch for the spike in deaths when they ‘boost’ the elderly and frail which will give them the excuse for the ‘firebreak’ lockdown that they’re not planning.
Which will give them the excuse to inject the children which they’re not planning. Oh wait, they are.
I find that so depressing – even down to the 5 year olds has been mentioned. I look at my under-5 grandkids and wonder how they’ll fare as my daughter-in-law will be first in the queue with them if they get to that age group. And what’s to stop them????
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-comments-from-jeremy-hunt-about-the-covid-19-booster-schedule-including-his-thoughts-that-we-should-just-get-on-not-wait-for-that-advice-in-reference-to-the-jcvi/
“The JCVI is a committee of experts set up to advise the government on immunisation and vaccination.1 In a way comparable to NICE, with other drugs and treatments, it makes recommendations on vaccination. Where they have been requested by ministers to answer a particular question (‘should we use this vaccine?’), the government is then legally obliged to follow their recommendations; but the committee also undertakes ‘horizon-scanning’ and can make other recommendations, which will not have the force of law.
“As discussed above, if the JCVI is tasked by ministers with answering a specific question, then the government is obliged to implement that decision; but other than in these circumstances, the JCVI’s role is advisory, and ministers can make decisions taking into consideration the views of JCVI, other government advisory committees, and financial and political considerations.”
But no-one appears to have actually asked the idiots the question WHY a booster is needed?
Is it because the jabs don’t work? Or is it to attempt to cover up expected side effects?
Anyone like to hazard a guess how many jabs will be required to be “fully vaccinated” by, say, the end of the year?
Well Israel are on their fourth and it’s working really well as they currently have the highest infection rate in the world.
I admit, I thought Israel’s still on three, with queues round the block for it and a ‘vax pass’ that’ll run out precisely six months after the third jab. Which, of course, in the longer term means jabs ongoing. I think Turkey is deffo on four, certainly for the healthcare sector.
It must by now be fairly obvious to anyone with even half a brain cell that these injections ain’t what was claimed, either in terms of what they could ‘prevent’ or in terms of the appalling side effects. I’ve just entertained myself on the BBC hys by pointing out that their third jab is really only to put off the expected explosion of ADE this autumn.
Does anyone know if there have been any post mortems done on triple and quadruple jabbed individuals yet? And is there a yellow card equivalent for Israel? Talk about human guinea pigs!
If you haven’t seen this already, I can recommend it. Del Bigtree talking about all sorts of up to date stuff including a good, easily digestible explanation of A.D.E
To your point, he talks to the Pathologist Dr Ryan Cole who states there has been ONE post Mortem in the USA!
As he rightly says, a new experimental drug is being administered in numbers never seen before, but nobody, not Governments, not scientists, nobody seems to wants to investigate how or why it is causing injuries and deaths in record breaking numbers!
https://rumble.com/vlve7n-are-we-starting-to-see-a.d.e..html
I’m sure it’s going to get worse, but some days you wonder how? Yep fourth, fifth, ad infinitum!
Israel’s national coronavirus czar on Saturday called for the country to begin making preparations to eventually administer fourth doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
“Given that that the virus is here and will continue to be here, we also need to prepare for a fourth injection,” Salman Zarka told Kan public radio. This is our life from now on, in waves,” he said.
Could Israel be going all out for the Marek Effect.
A leaky vaccine was used to fight a virus in high-density chicken barns. Vaccinated chickens were protected from severe outcomes but continued to catch and spread the virus. A variant emerged that spread among the vaccinated chickens without killing them but killed 80% of unvaccinated birds when they got infected.
Though maybe ADE will spoil the party.
Well, I’m no expert, obvs, but to test the Marek principle (essentially a vaccine that doesn’t stop you getting it or passing it on, but protects you from death while it leaks out and kills most people who haven’t been jabbed), you’d need to observe a large number of people in a cut-off place. So Israel’s probably out as they freely let their citizens out of the country. Australia on the other hand …
It’s not much fun being an unjabbed chicken at present, eh?
Although it seems their jabs will be about as much use at killing me as they are at ‘protecting’ those who’ve taken them. Which is to say they will be, and are, utter crap.
I’ve raised the same points with my pro-‘vax’ family.
If they really do understand the effects of this fake vaccine, why didn’t they know the efficacy would run out so fast?
Truth is, their is no efficacy because it’s not designed to protect you from Covid-19. The bastards have the population believing that the fake vaccine has kept hospitalisations low over the summer. People have seemingly forgot that respiratory illnesses all but vanish in warm seasons.
They started boosters in care homes in Germany. First news reports – yes the MSM is actually reporting it! – of near fatalities in a care home in NRW.
At least 2 residents had to be resuscitated a few days after.
Officials saying “we’re still investigating any possible connections”.
At least a local GP said he will not administer boosters until there is more knowledge.
The GP will get nobbled in some way detrimental to his life…
Can’t they just fuck off and leave us alone? Is that really too much to ask?
We’re going to have to make them, I’m afraid.
Being at war with your own government is a new thing for most people in the UK but we’re going to have to get used to the idea. Perhaps some of our older East European friends can advise us on how to survive under a totalitarian regime and eventually overthrow it.
Unfortunately it seems to be these days. And what is even more concerning is that if you say that in front of many normals (and I have, many times) they look at you as if you are asking for something completely unreasonable!
Every time – they start off by talking about these policies like the idea is merely being floated. We’re told they’re not likely to do it… but if they do… it’ll only be for the most vulnerable. Then suddenly, they’re not talking about eligibility, they’re demanding the entire population gets a needle stuck in their arm.
I don’t know how many more times we’re going to witness this blatant strategy without the general public noticing the pattern.
Even dumb animals learn trends and start to alter their behaviour if that trend is a potential threat. But the public are suffering collective psychosis and their sense of reality is shot to smithereens.
Good luck to everyone trying in agony to persuade their loved ones to avoid these injections. It feels like holding on to their hand as they hang off a cliff, but the government/media/medical world is squirting snake oil on our grip.
I have given up warning family and friends. They have been made fully aware of what is really happening; I have shared articles, studies and data since March 2020. Like Nostrapharmas, I have given them a glimpse into their future of digital-public health-social control tyranny and yet they still suck at the teat of Boris like a hungry, malnourished pup. Frankly, if my family and friends are still too dumb to see what is going on, then they probably deserve everything that is coming to them.
Nosrapharmas…love it. I too am like a person of two-halves…I am just so fed-up of explaining this shit to people…let’s face it we still have people thinking a Positive PCR test is a diagnosis of Covid for goodness sake….There isn’t one bit of this scamdemic that stands up to any rational thought or examination.
At the same time some of these numpty’s are my family and friends and I don’t want anything bad to happen to them.
In the the case of the third full vaccine dose, please stop calling it by the designated name of booster..more psy ops…tell it like it is, they are having a third full dose because one and two have failed! I do think lots of people are waking up a bit, I know a few who don’t want it and won’t put themselves forward for it.
Some while ago I read the government had ordered something like 540 million vaccine doses. What’s the number up to now?
In a comment following the previous article on here today, it stated that Government had signed a contract with the firm Entrust, worth £1.6 millions, for vaccine passports, valid until March 22, with the option of a further year. I looked up Entrust’s website – my blood ran cold. Everyone in Britain, if not on the planet, needs to see it – it is everything that we who have been labelled conspiracy theorists warned against. It must surely open people’s eyes to what is really going on. https://www.entrust.com/?edc_sfid=7015Y000002ePv6QAE&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4eaJBhDMARIsANhrQABUTs86NECMKQWts6j80pOxFXk1AlWM7tbh16OFcVYagEfuVgG-b1waAv_bEALw_wcB
I’m sure like most of us you realised you were wasting your time. As Mark Twain (allegedly) said “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled”
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
https://theconversation.com/why-did-thalidomides-makers-ignore-warnings-about-their-drug-47092
Why does this site (and the BBC) feel the need to show a huge close-up of a hypodermic syringe almost every the jab is mentioned? Needle phobics all over the world must be having a hard time with this.
(Totally missing the point of the issue, I know, but still; just like masked faces are here, there and everywhere on advertising – although this appears to be easing off now.)
Ridiculous and pointless. It’s no different to blindfolding someone, putting him in a darkened room, giving him a sheaf of darts and telling him to hit a bullseye on an imaginary dartboard.
Danger porn.
I’m trending this…(can one person whose not on any official media trend anything? LOL!)
#it’s not a booster it’s a full third dose of a vaccine because doses one and too failed!
I sincerely hope that people boycott the booster in vast numbers. I know double-jabbed individuals who are certainly having second thoughts about it.
I suppose the danger is then that the so-called Leaders will double down on the passport stuff. Sometimes I think we’re done for whatever happens.
How many times can you ‘boost’ the immune system? Real science tells me ONLY ONCE
Unless you want Immune Cell Exhaustion and the problems that causes…
This has all gone WAY beyond public health. No-one’s speaking of a deadly viral disease any more and the danger of bodies on the streets, etc. This is more and more obviously about money and power. I shouldn’t have thought there’d be many TerminallyTerrified out there, who are gagging for this ”booster” – though they’ll queue up for it, thinking it’ll mean ”Freedom”.