Operation Misery: Month 7, Week 5, Day 1.

Today Rihanna performed her second concert in Sydney, Australia. As usual Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) are still childishly insisting on their information blackout. Unofficial information is starting to trickle out though so I can tell you that the concert did take place and seems to have gone rather well. I will though have to wait until I get more information before I write a more full review.

One thing I do know though is that the US President Barack Obama has cancelled his tour of South-East Asia that was meant to include the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) conference. Officially this is to allow Obama more time to deal with the US government shutdown. Unofficially though it's because the South-East Asian leg of Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour has left the US deeply unpopular across the region so Obama is skipping the summit in order to avoid the fallout. Although this snub makes Obama look even weaker and is likely to offend Asian leaders even further this strikes me as a very sensible move. Nowhere near as sensible as not doing the Rihanna operation in the first place though.

In the unlikely event that Rihanna's Sydney concert had been poor she would have had the perfect excuse. Although I don't have an address to give you Rihanna's Instagram posts suggest that she is staying in a hotel overlooking Sydney harbour. Apart from Rihanna Sydney harbour is currently also hosting celebrations to mark 100 years of the Australian Navy. These celebrations include a flotilla of 55 ships from 17 navies including the US and Chinese sailing through and docking in Sydney harbour along with all the noise, crowds, gun salutes, sailors and security concerns this type of event brings. Apart from all the noise and disruption the management's plan was for this to unsettle Rihanna by getting her to think about her own fanbase which is known as "The Navy" although it's not looking like the most impressive navy in Sydney at the moment.

Therefore this provides a perfect opportunity for the management to prove they have abandoned Rihanna's idiotic travel schedule by allowing her to move straight on to New Zealand rather then sitting through what is going to be a weekend long celebration. After all Rihanna's continued presence in Sydney also puts rather a lot of pressure on the nations attending the celebrations. Intelligence gathering has always played a huge part in warfare meaning that many modern warships are absolutely bristling with electronic surveillance equipment. So by putting Rihanna this close to that many warships the management are hoping that the assembled navies can be tricked into showing off their capabilities by trying to track Rihanna's movements and intercept her electronic communications such as phonecalls.

Although Rihanna really shouldn't worry about it because I doubt they'll bother she could at least tell us when she does eventually leave Sydney. At least that way we can tell who won the game by managing to get a missile lock on Rihanna's aircraft as it leaves.

15:02 on 4/10/13 (UK date).