Saturday 28 September 2013

Operation Misery: Month 7, Week 4, Day 2.

This morning the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution on Syria's chemical weapons. I will explain this more fully later but the relevant detail here is that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which is charged with implementing this resolution has stated quite clearly that it will not entertain discussions about setting a time table until November 15th 2013 - the date of the final concert of Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour in New Orleans, US. Due to the hostile political agenda of Rihanna's tour this is no coincidence and very much the world turning round to the US and telling it that they will not do this until the US stops doing that. The fact that the US' itself was forced to vote in favour of this resolution is testament to how much the US' diplomatic standing has collapsed in the wake of its Rihanna operation.

Under this sort of pressure you would have excused Rihanna for screwing up her show tonight in Brisbane, Australia. There was no need to worry though because Rihanna was more then up to the challenge arriving on stage just some 20-25 minutes late which for Rihanna counts as on time. Rihanna went on to preform the standard set-list with the standard costume changes. I will obviously have to wait for the videos to appear before commenting on the quality of Rihanna's performance myself but the early reviews are talking of a flat rather then a poor performance. However that is really an unavoidable consequence of a set-list that is dependent on the very weak Unapologetic album that probably should have been put out to pasture a long time ago.

What is unfortunate about the concert is that it marked a tightening of Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) information blackout. Obviously the management have already made clear that they are going to adamantly stick to their position of refusing to provide necessary information in a timely fashion. However on this occasion - on my account at least - Tweets about the concert were either blocked outright or significantly time-delayed and there were lots of fake Tweets circulating containing false information. This is a worry because it appears that the US' response to the censure it has received from the international community is to provocatively pick a fight. Considering the world of hurt the US has just signed up to this strikes me as an incredibly bad move and explains why I'm now starting to experience the sort of headaches I used to get when working with the clinically insane.

After all there are only so many conversations about the sensors the government have hidden in lampposts in order to test the effectiveness of the cancer causing drugs they've put into the water supply before it really starts to grate.

14:45 on 28/9/13 (UK date).

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