Unfortunately the people running Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour still view me as the enemy. As a result it's only today that I've found out that on Monday/Tuesday Rihanna travelled from Hong Kong to Thailand. Officially this was to shoot the video for her next single "What Now." The real motive though was political and three fold.
Firstly it created a secret group that was aware of Rihanna's location and travel plans. With the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) beginning and high level talks over Syria continuing this secrecy could be used to put pressure on non-US allies by making it appear Rihanna's movements were being used as the basis for some sort of secret code. This part of the plan immediately falls flat on its face because in order to leave Hong Kong Rihanna would have had to file a flight plan detailing her movements. That handed China the key to cracking the code making them the centre of attention and giving them a significant bargaining chip. The secrecy over Rihanna's travel plans might be more effective as she moves from Thailand to the Philippines then from the Philippines to Singapore and from Singapore to Australia.
Secondly the detour provided Thailand with access to Rihanna. Being a Monarchy Thailand has always had strong reasons to be fearful of the republican element of Communism so has been a strong regional ally of the US throughout the Cold War and up to the present day. By granting Thailand access to Rihanna the US was letting them into the secret in an effort to keep the allegiance strong. However being a Monarchy Thailand has always been a much closer ally to the UK. So by giving Thailand access to Rihanna the UK is also being granted access. Combined with the trip to Singapore this gives the UK lots of information about Rihanna's activities and mood. The intention being to force the newly formed Australian government into seeking out this information from the UK in order to prove their loyalty by using that information to wage a low level harassment campaign against Rihanna whilst she is in Australia and New Zealand. The fact that Thailand is a major staging point for the people and drug smugglers that are a significant part of Australian politics really doesn't help. The UK of course has been trying to disguise this as a discussion about age of sexual consent and attitudes towards female virginity because Thailand like neighbouring Cambodia has an appalling record on child prostitution.
Finally and probably most importantly the trip was intended to further destroy Rihanna's sleep patterns. We already know that due to the stupid trip to London Rihanna has been suffering from jetlag. Quite apart from the disruption the extra flights from Hong Kong to Thailand and then from Thailand to the Philippines will cause the video shoot went on for ages meaning that Rihanna had to be awake for the best part of 36 hours. As a result Rihanna is probably not only sleep deprived but her body must be struggling to tell whether it's day or night let alone what day it is. This is a problem because sleep is where the mind sort of reorganises itself so without it people become more irritable, depressed and paranoid. Therefore if these efforts to subject Rihanna to sleep deprivation techniques continue it is highly likely that she will be a nervous wreck by the time she arrives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) if not before.
As a knock-on effect all this harassment of Rihanna frustrates me. That's not because I'm worried the handlers are going to achieve their objectives. It's just that I actually quite like Rihanna so I find any efforts to harm her deeply irritating.
16:10 on 18/9/13.
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