Much to everyones annoyance despite the end of the Diamonds World Tour Rihanna remains still very much alive. As far as anyone can tell she is currently celebrating this fact whilst holed up in a hotel in New York City, US. Considering that Rihanna is currently renting an apartment just around the corner from this hotel this strikes me as an extremely poor decision.
The poverty of the situation is being particularly added to by the fact that Rihanna is staying in this hotel alongside the British model Cara Delevinge. Although for some reason the pair genuinely appear to be friends Ms Delevinge has a well established reputation as a British informant and actually wore the England soccer/Crystal Palace Football Club style outfit at the recent Victoria's Secret show. Therefore the reason why Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) have forced to pair together at this time is to give the impression that the UK is trying to gather information about an operation that is continues to fully endorse. This may have been true even as recently as September with the UK trying to us Ms Delevinge as a way to get Rihanna hooked on cocaine in an attempt to promote discussion about drug smuggling. However since then even the UK has distanced itself from an operation that now only the US and the US alone thinks should continue.
I will though continue to follow Ms Delevinge on Twitter in an effort to try and work out what on earth the attraction is. After all Cara Delevinge and Melissa Forde together is a lesbian porn film I think we'd all pay to see.
One outcome of Rihanna's stay in New York so far has been that she's changed her hairstyle. Gone are the long extensions and the undercut being replaced by a more natural looking black bob. This seems to be a direct nod to the hairstyle of Nelson Mandela's granddaughter Zoleka who has been doing the rounds recently talking about her battle with cancer. Obviously the element of this story that attracts Rihanna is that if she continues to dye, relax and add to her hair it will fall out at the roots much as Zoleka Mandela's did during her chemotherapy. However being a the star of a Kim Kardashian style reality show Zoleka Mandela also raises the issues of her grandfather Nelson's struggle against apartheid in South Africa and her grandmother Winnie's somewhat less noble role in that struggle whilst making the point that in a relatively poor nation where roughly 1 in 5 people are HIV positive people still face more traditionally western health care problems such as cancer.
Basically one of the main outcomes people are hoping for from the COP19/CMP9 is to flesh the Durban Platform which was laid out at the COP17/CMP7 in Durban, South Africa to provide a replacement for the Kyoto framework which is set to expire in 2015. So win or lose South African has quite a lot of its reputation staked on this.
On the subject of weather/climate the US is currently trying to make an awful lot of a series of late season tornadoes that have swept across parts of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. Despite being home to Chicago and therefore US President Obama's adopted home state Illinois also contains lots of place names that sound a lot like other place names. For example one of the most talked about areas is the town of Washington that shares its name with Washington D.C where the US federal government is based. So I actually think this storm has been the environment trying to show the US what it has been doing to everybody else for the past year.
After all along with Typhoon Haiyan the US storm has posed lots of relevant questions about how urban design adapts to the threat posed by environmental hazards. Particularly why people who live in an area prone to tornadoes still insist on building their houses out of wood rather then stone? After all the effort to repair the damage will place extra pressure on the world's forests (carbon sinks if you prefer) that the REDD+ program is trying to protect.
15:50 on 18/11/13.
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