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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Well done Chris. You have proven yet again – Fraud. Fraud. Fraud. UHI completely disregarded by the discredited Met. Aligns with Climate Gate and the ridiculous Hockey Stick etc
There is no warming imo – many areas of the world are uncovered by stations, and many regions seem to be cooling. Overall it is likely a wash. Nothing unnatural is going on. And as you have written, there is no such thing as a global temperature.
Why the fraud? Money, power, more governmental control, with the totalitarian ideal of completely ‘owning’ and then getting rid of clean-burning, renewable, abiotic hydrocarbon energy. Climate fascism or saving the Earth, is an emotional plea for World Totalitarian governance (the NWO). Health and scamdemics is another avenue to the same.
When the record UK temp was announced I tracked down RAF Coningsby on Google earth. A weather station is obvious at 53 05 38 N. 0 10 22 W. It is close to the coordinates on the metoffice site.
if this is the weather station it is c. 10 meters from very large concrete and asphalt surfaces including an apron road. Asphalt is c, 20c above ambient on a warm sunny day. This would have raised the temp. Way above true.
another possible site of an automatic station is close at 53 05 37 N 00 10 04 W. It sits atop a 12m x 5m concrete pad and in close proximity to other large pads and the main runway which is 60 meters away.
i find it hard to believe any credible scientist would accept a high temperature reading from this site as representative and reliable.
That is a lot of bad data. I can remember the US map and was shocked how many were at airports
The problem is not that the weather stations are at airports. Airports need to know what’s happening in their immediate area. The problem is using data from a station designed to serve an airport’s needs and claiming it represents a wide area beyond.
Yes, we need weather stations at airports to keep the planes moving safely. No, they do not represent what’s happening in Farmer Giles’ field.
The most important things for an airport to know all of the time are atmospheric pressure, wind direction, and wind speed. If their local met station records these accurately – which in the case of wind speed tends to mean away from buildings, hills, fences, trees etc – that’s most of the job done. A met station situated on the open tarmaced area of an airport would give them the above information, but the absolute temperature readings would be almost meaningless
‘Penny (Endersby) became Chief Executive of the Met Office in December 2018. For most of her career she has delivered science and technology on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.
As Chief Executive, Penny leads the strategic direction of the Met Office and is:
She was appointed by Theresa May…….
She is an expert on ‘intelligent armours’
The government, any governments, are no good at running anything, least of all the weather.
Would someone, anyone, please get a grip…….
The acronym BAME makes me seethe with rage. Not only is part of the race grifting industry, but it lumps together people who often probably have very little in common. Black and Minority Ethnic. The “blacks” (whatever that means – I suppose people of ultimately sub-Saharan African origin – tiny region, all the same “race” except “race is apparently a social construct, I am getting a headache, presume this includes people from the Caribbean whose ancestors came from “Africa” – but not Arabs presumably – but “race” is definitely a social construct) are lumped in with “minority ethnic” – I think they mean brown people of various shades, except skin colour is meaningless, and does this include people from, for example, China? What a crock. I guess it started out as a “black” thing and then they tacked on everyone else, Indians, Pakistanis etc don’t get their own part of the acronym. Utterly pathetic. Just call it non-white, because that’s what it means, sorry Poles and Travellers you’re not important, we’re not sure about the Chinese but who cares about them anyway, and we’re not sure if Jews are white either, whatever a Jew is. How this abomination was ever proposed and is still being used is beyond me.
Yes, the whole “people of colour” hoax was invented to lump Orientals in with Africans and Indian Subcontinentals, which they themselves would never do, in order to unite 93% of humanity against the World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, Europeans, now comprising 7% of all the people on the planet. Part of the genocide plan.
“Intelligent” armours, you say.
Move her to the Post Office, I say, oh – wait a minute!
The problem is usually one of encroaching urbanisation causing heat islands, and yet, as Tony Heller points out, NASA etc have been adjusting the earlier records downwards.
Excellent work Chris! DS shines in its challenges to climate nonscience.
I look forward to the MSM latching onto this and revealing how the powers that be deliberately mislead us.
Can we rely on any official figures ? I have long since ceased to believe Covid figures (vaccine harms, deaths, illnesses, efficacy of interventions), immigration levels, outcomes of Government initiatives and the truth about any overseas interventions.
It is probably more accurate to start off from the premise that everything they say is a lie and wait for evidence that you are wrong, rather than take anything at face value (or should that be two-face value).
Remember their motto – I’m from the Government and I’m here to screw you.
Anyone who has been looking into this issue who does not depend on government money for research or who is not a brown envelope politician doing the dirty work for the Climate Industrial Complex knows that the temperature record of earth is a dog’s breakfast of manipulated data that has been fiddled about with more than a prostitutes knickers. But the important thing is that it has been fiddled about with for political purposes by government funded data adjusters. ——–A good friend of mine asked “But why would people say there is a climate crisis if there isn’t one? ———A very good question that I wish more people would ask instead of switching on their 6 O’Clock news to be misinformed and brainwashed by a bought and paid for media.
I was talking to someone about this fraud the other other day, and the only question she had was “Why? Why would they do that? It doesn’t make any sense”. “Control” I said. I explained that the climate hoax allows the elites to control every single aspect of our lives – behaviour, travel, purchases, food… the whole shebang. Again the same question “But why?”. I paused. It seemed difficult to articulate. Roughly what I said was that these people see us as parasites on their planet. A planet they own, and we must be controlled otherwise we will run rampant, destroy it and kill each other like savages. “So you think this is all because a small handful of egotistical w*nkers have got together and decided to bully us and steal our sweets” she said incredulously. “That’s exactly what I was trying to say” I replied.
Klaus Schwab was even more forthright when he just blatantly told us “The lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle classes…………..are too high”.———–Basically our standard of living is too high apparently and that has to be lowered somewhat, with climate as the very plausible excuse.
he called the lifestyles “unsustainable” actually.
Please would you post a link to this?
For some unknown reason Google can’t seem to find anything like it…
According to this or was Maurice Strong who said it
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207233.2016.1185332
Ah yes —–Maurice Strong. —Sorry about that guys. But they all think the same stuff.
Brilliant Chris. Thanks for that. This is why we support the DS!
A day or so before the Coronation celebrations I walked in St James’s Park. There was a weather station within five meters of three large diesel generators. I doubt St James’s is a suitable place even at the best of times, with crouds and vegetation nearby, a large lake and a central London location but its readings when generators are nearby are useless except to those who want to fake the numbers.
The Met Office seems to be yet another tax payer funded organisation which has not seen fit to do its job properly, it has not kept its capabilities up to date and instead spends large amounts of political campaigns. You can be sure that if the political campaigns were undermined by weather stations UNDER reporting the temperature they would have been replaced long ago.
Compaired to the costs of their DEI and PR departments, a rolling programme of relocating and renewing weather stations would be easily funded.
What meteorological resource do the forces use these days; I hope not the Met, which was designed for that purpose.
Can someone pass this info on to Jim Dale, the so called meteorologist at GB news? He’s an utter knob who thinks that the world is currently on fire.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/welsh-farmers-protest-jim-dale-net-zero-doomed
Yes I saw that the other day and ofcourse Eammon Holmes and Isabel Webster know virtually nothing about this issue. Holmes is really just a tittle tattle gossip shop breakfast show presenter and he regularly lets Dale spout all manner of nonsense like “the world is on fire” with no questions asked. ——-Mark Steyn would have ripped the silly activist to shred, and Nana Akua gives him short shrift. But the best presenter I have seen challenge the buffoon is Hartley Brewer on Talk TV
Met office weather stations fall into two groups: synoptic which are used for forecasting and climate monitoring and non-synoptic which are there for special reasons e.g. someone needs to monitor the temperature at specific location in a city. Non-synoptic stations are not used for forecasting or climate monitoring. Are these figures just for synoptic or do they include non-synoptic (which may well be CIMO 4 or 5 because that is not relevant to them)?
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Fascinating article. It makes me wonder whether some of those UK temperature stations may have been quietly shut down, as was found in the US a few years back, but fake temperature readings were still being taken from them to bolster the Global Warming narrative.
With reference to USCRN – worth reading this. It actually shows a slightly higher warming trend than the full national record although it matches it extremely closely.
Warming is what happens in an Interglacial period. There have been quite a few similar warming periods in the last 2 thousand years alone, but apparently all of the natural stuff that caused those has suddenly ceased and only humans apparently now regulate the planets temperature. ——-The audacity of the climate industrial complex with their discredited hockey sticks etc is quite bare faced. —–PS Just because something warms does not mean humans warmed it, if indeed we have any warming at all since we can hardly trust the manipulated temperature data.
But climate scientists don’t assume all the natural stuff has stopped. They observe and measure the possible natural causes and they don’t account for current warming e.g. solar radiation is actually decreasing at the moment. Increased GHGs do account for it.
Please define your actual medical problem?
I have myeloma. So what?
Sorry, but I don’t see the relevance of anyone’s medical condition to the discussion. Where in the discussion here is a medical condition of anyone first mentioned please? And who first mentioned it?
Real Engineer introduced it. I have no idea why?
Well I find that unacceptable for an anonymous stranger to start discussing gratuitously the sensitive personal health information of another commenter when wholly irrelevant and particularly such a serious medical condition.
Presumably he knew this information from a comment you made somewhere else? How else could he [or she?] know that?
In your shoes I would be most distressed to have someone do that to me.
It doesn’t bother me. My myeloma did come up here once, I think on the topic of the NHS, but that was at least a year ago. On reflection I suspect it was a joke gone wrong. The idea being that I must have something wrong with me to make the comments I do.
Anyhow thanks for your concern.
There is something wrong with the attitudes of the person concerned. I had cause to come to that conclusion some time ago over several exchanges then.
This is one example and I will post others that I find after it:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/11/the-ukhsas-evidence-for-covid-restrictions-is-a-complete-mess/#comment-908909
Another example of exchanges:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/11/the-ukhsas-evidence-for-covid-restrictions-is-a-complete-mess/#comment-908915
Chris would you consider doing an article about chem trails. The met office is gagged and will not discuss what we see in the skies daily. Governments are beginning to admit weather manipulation, Geoengineering. GeoengineeringWatch.net is a good resource as is Judy CurryPhD blog, books and X. Judy is an American climatologist and former chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I worry about what is being sprayed in our atmosphere.
‘A reliable source of global data is to be found in (Prof Roy Spencer’s) UAH satellite record, which shows less overall warming since 1979 than the surface datasets.’
Dr Spencer is also responsible for the calculation (see his Global Warming Scepticism for Busy People) that natural thermal inputs to the Earth’s climate system, mainly from deep-ocean turnover, are not known to within an accuracy of 10 Watts per square meter of the Earth’s surface. Whereas all the slight warming we have seen since 1950 could be accounted for by warming of just 1 Watt per square meter, which a slight change in average cloud cover could easily produce.