Operation Misery: Month 8, Week 1, Day 1.

In my last post on the subject I pointed out that Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) had left Rihanna dumped in a hotel overlooking Sydney harbour surrounded by celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Australian navy. This was of course intended to stress Rihanna out through all the noise and disruption along with paranoia that some of the assembled warships could be using their electronic surveillance equipment to spy on Rihanna. Also you would think that someone who is used to being the centre of attention for a fanbase known as "The Navy" might feel a little put out by close 1 million people turning out to celebrate another navy leaving Rihanna more or less totally ignored.

Therefore I said that this situation provided the management an opportunity to demonstrate that it had abandoned its campaign against Rihanna by allowing her to avoid the Australian celebrations by travelling onto Auckland, New Zealand ahead of Rihanna's concert there today. Unfortunately the management decided to do the exact opposite.

Firstly Lauryn Hill was released from prison in New York where she was serving a sentence for tax evasion. Like Rihanna Lauryn Hill is a black, female singer so her release was the US very publicly trying to send the message that if Rihanna were to leave for New Zealand there would not be any consequences in terms of the current Inland Revenue Service (IRS) audit of Rihanna over tax evasion and the associated lawsuit against Berdon LLP. Therefore this was intended to put pressure on Rihanna by giving the impression (that could well be false) that she could leave Australia any time she liked. Rihanna just had to make the decision herself.

Secondly at roughly the same time of Friday (4/10/13) a man was arrested after attempting to break into Rihanna's Los Angeles home. This is believed to be the same man who attempted to break into Rihanna's home on Sunday (29/9/13). Obviously I don't think I need to explain why having someone attempting to break into your home especially when you're not there is a stressful experience. However by being seen to so publicly attempt to stress Rihanna out the management were also trying to encourage the navies in Sydney harbour to spy on Rihanna by making it look like there was something dramatic going on. Also the arrest took place at around 5AM Sydney time which is when I would have thought Rihanna would have been trying to get some sleep especially with the day long anniversary celebrations starting at around 9AM.

Although there has been no official word I understand that Rihanna did leave Sydney for New Zealand at some point on Saturday afternoon/evening (local). As an observer I would have to say that the failure by Rihanna or anyone in her core tour party to mention this was due more to confusion and fear of how to act in a stressful situation rather then any malicious intent.

The US' attack of Rihanna did continue into Saturday with the news that a female worker at a zoo in Oklahoma was attacked by a tiger and may lose her arm. The zoo has stated that the tiger won't be destroyed because they claim it was the zoo workers fault that she was attacked. On Thursday (3/10/13) I explained how the UK has been briefing hard against the US' Rihanna operation in order to maximise the damage it does to the US' international reputation.

Part of this was the case of Phillip Simelane a violent offender with a string of previous convictions and serious psychological problems who is meant to represent Chris Brown. A failure by the relevant authorities (police, probation service etc) to management the threat posed by Simelane meant that he was able to murder Christina Edkins an innocent teenage girl who is meant to represent Rihanna on a bus in Birmingham, UK which is meant to represent Rihanna's tour bus. Although the crime took place in March 2013 when Rihanna and Chris Brown were reuniting around the time of Rihanna's California concerts Simelane was convicted on Wednesday (2/10/13). During the attack Simelane was wearing a jacket emblazoned with a large image of a tiger.

Therefore the claim that the Oklahoma zoo worker was at fault for her attack was an attempt to blame Rihanna for the fact that Chris Brown assaulted her. The fact that the zoo announced that it will not be destroying the tiger in response to the attack was intended to send the message that Chris Brown will not have his restraining order reinstated or face any further punishment over his attack on Rihanna. I personally take this as a good sign because it shows the pressure on the management to do something about Chris Brown is now so great they feel need to issue a statement. However I think this likely to stress Rihanna out because I don't think she has quite realised that the argument about Chris Brown's fate is all about the management wanting the send the message that they do not abandon their agents no matter the cost rather then any aspect of Rihanna's behaviour.

Under these circumstances you would perhaps excuse Rihanna for delivering a poor performance in Auckland. Obviously the management's information blackout is still in full effect. However the local media in New Zealand has completely ignored this so I can tell you that Rihanna arrived on stage about 45-50 minutes late which is beyond the expected 15-20 minutes of lateness and starting to get to the point where it is a problem. Rihanna then went on to perform the standard set-list and costume changes. While no-one is talking in terms of a poor performance Rihanna seems to be slipping slightly from the highpoint that was the first Sydney concert. I am though arrogant enough to believe that the delay in Rihanna getting on stage was cause by the confusion created by me inexplicably waking  up just as Rihanna was scheduled to take to the stage. If the reports of a 50 minute delay are correct then Rihanna actually took to the stage just as my alarm clock was going off which at that point would have been picked up by my Blackberry. However it was also at around this point that I fell back to sleep.


12:25 on 6/10/13 (UK date).