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

Today Rihanna was scheduled to perform the first of two concerts in Sydney, Australia. I'm assuming that this concert took place because Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) are still insisting on their information blackout meaning that all the information I've had access to are Twitter rumours of more London, UK concerts being added to the Diamonds World Tour schedule. Those rumours are entirely false and seem inteded just to stress me out. This  lack of information forces me to rely on the old shared consciousness thing which is hit and miss at the best of times and certainly needs feeding to stay strong. Therefore I'm pretty much just guessing when I say;

Rihanna took to the stage almost exactly on time in Sydney to perform the standard set-list and costume changes. Rihanna's general mood and therefore the effort she put into the performance were noticeably improved from the Adelaide concerts making this the strongest performance of this third and final leg of the tour so far. Hopefully tomorrow's concert will be even stronger. However as always the set-list for the concert is heavily dependent on the comparatively weak "Unapologetic" album meaning that the overall tone of the concert was rather subdued.

One possible explanation for Rihanna's improved performance is that she did the sensible thing and flew from Adelaide to Sydney the day before the concert giving Rihanna time to settle into the new city and prepare herself for the concert. Although I don't have any details of the flight times I hope this travel was scheduled to coincide with a period in which Rihanna would be awake anyway in order to help her avoid the psychological exhaustion that I am clearly suffering from. While this type of exhaustion isn't a problem in itself this does create a weakness which combined with things like poor reviews, bitter social media arguments, atrocities like the Westgate Mall attack in Kenya and the culture shock of travelling to places like Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates can become a significant problem.

Fortunately through things like the Federal Aviation Authority's (FAA) consideration of new guidelines on the use of electronic equipment on flights which made specific reference to things that Rihanna might enjoy doing in-flight such as watching episodes of "Breaking Bad" the US seems to be very publicly distancing itself from Rihanna's idiotic schedule leaving her the freedom to follow a more sensible one. Unfortunately though yesterday aside there is little evidence that Rihanna and the management are following these new instructions and the FAA guidance still prevents people from making calls/using the Internet in flight indicating that the US is still trying to prevent Rihanna from giving us a general view of her travel arrangements. That makes it all to easy to conclude that the US is trying to be seen to say one thing in public while doing the opposite in private in the hope that they can claim any problems are beyond their control. After all with Azerbaijan taking over the rotating Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) it's clear the US were hoping to use October to create speculation about Rihanna's welfare and whether she is on course for another Azerbaijan style meltdown. Also forcing Rihanna to search the headlines for all these secret signs and symbols is only likely to add to her stress levels.

I do though severely hope that the US have now genuinely abandoned that plan because as I've said the people they are trying to fool are the people who read daily reports on the situation in Syria and events like the Westgate Mall attack. Therefore the prospect of Rihanna having a bit of a tough time is not likely to shock them. It is though likely to be just enough to remind them just how unpleasant the US can be and make the US look very weak because it appears to be attacking Rihanna in order to apologise to the Gulf Monarchies whilst at the same time doing everything the Gulf Monarchies ask of it. Also nations like the UK are still very firmly briefing against the US on the Rihanna issue. Not only is the Coroners Inquest into the death of Mark Duggan which is likely to absolve Rihanna of any responsibility for the UK's August 2011 riots ongoing but yesterday there was the sentencing of Phillip Simelane a poorly managed criminal with severe psychological problems (Chris Brown) who went on to murder an innocent girl (Rihanna) on a bus in Birmingham

Overall though I hope the US have abandoned their plan because it seems that no matter what they try it is bound to fail. After all while I don't have any special information about Rihanna she seems to be in a much better mood and stronger frame of mind then she was even a few weeks ago.

15:15 on 3/1/0/13 (UK date).