Operation Misery: Month 15, Week 4, Day 5.

Yesterday (4/5/14) Rihanna launched her Rouge perfume in Paris, France without incident. Today she held her much hyped press conference at the Hard Rock Cafe in Paris to reveal the big secret.

It turns out that secret is that Rihanna has donated some of her clothes (not ones she's designed) to the Hard Rock Cafe so they can sell them in aid of the Clara Lionel Foundation which helps children affected by blood cancer (Leukaemia). However, as always with Rihanna, the exact work of this foundation seems poorly defined. So I would say that Rihanna's CIA handlers have gone so small on this it was simply an excuse for Rihanna to appear at the Hard Rock Cafe in Paris so food could be used as an example of that Winter Olympic theme of European high culture versus American low culture.

Of course along with the release of Chris Brown from prison by again associating Rihanna with charity her handlers were also trying to signal that they intended to press ahead with their plan to force Rihanna into a marriage to Chris Brown. The pair will then be used to exert pressure on developing nations through low profit tours and charity visits. The idea being to provoke an aggressive backlash particularly from me. As such I feel I should point out that unless Rihanna is prepared to make some effort of her own what I can achieve is extremely limited meaning that I am starting to view her as a lost cause. It is obviously difficult to become passionate about a lost cause.

The US was also hoping that this backlash would allow the UK to position itself in the role of good cop by leading the objections to the US' plans for Rihanna. Displaying wonderful prior knowledge the UK yesterday put that plan into motion with the announcement that one baby has died and 14 others have been made seriously ill by poisoned nutrient (food) IV drips. The intended subtext being that Rihanna is being poisoned by the poor quality food that is being provided by Chris Brown who is hardly an impressive example of masculinity - a "bit of a drip" in slang. It must be said though that to me that only serves to highlight how skewed the UK's world view is because it's rare that baby killers are viewed as the good guys.

The issue of charity is intended to heap pressure on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) June meeting because it is extremely close to the issue climate finance which divides developed and developing nations. What the developing nations primarily want is money that they can spend how they like. Failing that they want technology transfers which involves things likes patents being waived bringing down the cost of new technology and technical experts being provided so they can make the best use of new methods. What they often end up with though are rather twee programs that see "educators" from developed nations travel to developing nations to train local people in things like eco-driving techniques. Although these sort of programs aren't completely without value they fall far short of what is required and often seem more beneficial to the donor nation then the recipient nation.

Following things like the "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign in Nigeria there is a growing concern that these type of programs - particularly ones linked to gender or gay-rights issues - are actually being used by the developed world to destabilise the developing world. Obviously by linking Rihanna to charity work within the context of the Winter Olympics where soft-power and covert efforts to overthrown governments were major themes is intended to exacerbate those fears and increase the divisions between the developed and developing nations in the area of climate finance. The fact that Leukaemia is a blood born disease makes it a very easy euphemism for HIV/AIDS which has in the past frequently got tangled up in UNFCCC's discussions particularly on the REDD+ program.

Finally it makes it very easy to make fun of Rihanna because many people would describe the Council of Fashion Designers of America's (CFDA) recent decision to bestow an Icon award on Rihanna as an act of charity by the fashion industry. Also this is not the first time that Rihanna has involved herself in charitable efforts to address childhood leukaemia. Back in 2008 she took on the cause of Jasmina Anema - a 6 year old girl with the disease - appealing for a bone marrow donor and setting up a charitable foundation in her name. However after the publicity faded Rihanna appeared to dramatically lose interest with the foundation seeming to undertake absolutely no work and Rihanna and not even bothering to offer her condolences to the Anema family following Jasmina's death in 2010.

13:15 on 5/6/14 (UK date).