It turns out that contrary to initial reports Rihanna did not travel to Singapore immediately after her concert in the Philippines. Instead she returned to Thailand. This misdirection was intended to annoy the Chinese by testing out whether they could track Rihanna's movements and to a lesser extent give Russia incentive to call for an emergency meeting on Syria as the deadline for the declaration of Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles expired. By returning Rihanna to Thailand her CIA handlers/Live Nation (from now on I'm going to use the term "Management") were also aiming to strengthen the allegiance with the US by giving the Thais prime access to Rihanna.
As it turns out the Chinese didn't have any trouble whatsoever finding out Rihanna's true destination and the Russians expressed no interest in convening an emergency meeting on Syria. The dishonesty though did mean that the vicious argument the management's information blackout raged for a second day. My personal highlight was when the management realised that rather than getting us all speculating about whether Rihanna was pregnant all these rumours of liaisons with Drake, Chris Brown and A$AP Rocky were actually giving everybody a good laugh at the management's expense. The low point was when management thought they could pacify me by forcing Rihanna to stay up for some designated Twitter time. I suspect they were hoping that having a pretty girl bat her eyelashes at me on the Internet would cause me to forget that vital information was not being provided at an appropriate time. This has been management's hope for over a year now and well, it hasn't worked yet.
However some 20 hours after Rihanna's arrival in Phuket the Thai authorities in conjunction with management released one photograph of Rihanna in the country. This showed Rihanna posing with a fan at a pharmacy. This was of course intended to fuel speculation about Rihanna's menstrual cycle. That photograph was released alongside a number of photographs that claimed to show Rihanna in Thailand but were actually taken elsewhere including one that was taken in London at the launch of Rihanna's River Island clothing line. The intention of bundling the genuine photograph up with all the fakes was to cause confusion and irritation by forcing everyone to sort through the images.
As part of Rihanna's designated Twitter time though it was revealed that since her arrival in Thailand Rihanna had been forced out to experience and be seen experiencing Phucket famously seedy nightlife. Alongside the Ladyboy transsexuals and the prostitutes of all ages and genders Rihanna was forced to spend time with trained elephants at a sort of street circus. Apart from drawing the ire of those always enthusiastic animal rights campaigners this all stems from South Africa's tactics for Rihanna's tour.
Coming across as exceptionally greedy the South Africans have been using global efforts against poaching of animals like elephants for their ivory as a way to pick up information about Rihanna's South-East Asian adventures ahead of the upcoming concerts in South Africa. On Friday (20/9/13) the UK tried to muscle in on South Africa's efforts by sending one of their agents - Colin Manvell - to commit suicide by throwing himself under the hooves of an elephant in Masinagudi in southern India. I suspect Mr Manvell thought he was only going to be lightly injured. At the risk of going off on something of a tangent the UK has been trying to add an extra layer of confusion by claiming that Mr Manvell is deaf. My father is not only deaf but has recently decided that he is becoming more deaf. He thinks this is due to age I think it's due to the volume on telephone calls being deliberately turned down and the contestants on his favourite quiz shows being chosen because they speak rather softly. The UK saga about medical staff being allowed to wear full face Islamic veils appears to play into this because one thing about the Niqab is that it certainly makes lip-reading difficult.
Therefore Rihanna was under orders to show everyone that she'd been meeting with elephants was to try to give primarily the Thais and to a lesser extent the management a way to muscle into that UK, India, South Africa game. The obvious comparison between animals being kept prisoner in order to perform tricks for tourists and sex slaves being kept prisoner for pretty much the same reason probably helped convince the feminists at the State Department that the operation was all about making a bold stand for women's rights. Britain's BBC and Qatar's Al-Jazeera were playing along beautifully by giving great prominence to stories about online child abuse which is similar to a lot of Thai children who are forced to perform sex acts on webcams in order to make money and stories about paedophiles being tracked down and beaten up by vigilante gangs. The intention being to make it look like the UK and the Gulf Monarchies were desperate to find out what was going on with the women's rights aspect of Rihanna's Thailand trip in order to distract the management from events in Australia and East-Africa by making them think their plan was working.
As for Rihanna herself although she has stopped short of allowing us to send more discreet direct messages by either following me herself on Twitter or instructing members of her tour party to do so she has been totally co-operative since her designated Twitter time. The true test will come over the coming day when Rihanna will travel to Singapore for her appearance at the Formula 1 Grand Prix festival and then hopefully straight onto Australia. My fear is that the management's information blackout will return in order for the issue to be used at the upcoming high-level segment of the United Nations General Assembly. Given ongoing events in Kenya I cannot advise against that strongly enough.
23:00 on 21/9/13 (UK date).
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