New Year. Same Old Carnage.

2017 has given way to 2018. So if I remember nothing in this post I really have to remember to put the right date at the end.

December 2017 saw intense discussion over the popstar Rihanna's relationship with Saudi national Hassan Jameel. At the centre of this discussion is the fact that Jameel supplied the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with thousands of Toyota motor vehicles. It was being conducted by some of the major players in the war against ISIL.

So although it probably doesn't seem like it to people fighting on the front lines this discussion is sadly very relevant to the war against ISIL.

On December 26th (26/12/17) Rihanna's cousin Tavon Alleyne was killed in a targeted shooting. He was returning home from a party that Rihanna had hosted in their native Barbados.

I cannot yet confirm that the British intelligence services had Rihanna's cousin killed. However for several weeks before the killing Britain and other intelligence services had been discussing killing people close to Rihanna. Those conversations alone had a death toll of 36.

On December 31st (31/12/17) Australia made another large contribution to the discussion. A light aircraft crashed en route to the city of Sydney. The crash killed six people including a British family of five.

Obviously killing British citizens is a sign of hostility towards Britain. It tends not to be something you do when you are pleased about the way Britain is conducting itself. The crash also increased the pressure on Britain by including a large number of complex references.

For example the exact site of the crash was Jerusalem Bay. On December 6th (6/12/17) US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He then immediately signed a waiver suspending his decision. Just as every US President has done since 1995.

To say President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem was controversial is an understatement. Not least because violating international law it is not something he has the authority to do.

On December 19th (19/12/17) the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met to vote on a motion condemning President Trump's decision. Of the UNSC's 15 members 14 voted in support of the motion with only the veto holding US voting against.

On December 21st (21/12/17) the defeated UNSC motion went to the UN General Assembly (UNGA). By a vote of 128 to 9 the US' UNSC veto was overturned and the motion was adopted. This is only the 11th time in history that a UNSC veto has been overturned by the UNGA.

Over the winter break the most reported upon development in the story is that the popstar Lorde cancelled a concert scheduled to be held in Israel's capital Tel Aviv. Rather than being a direct protest of President Trump's decision this was a more general response to pressure from the very aggressive Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

Lorde is originally from Australia's neighbour New Zealand. Although a friendly rivalry does exist between the two Australia and New Zealand are culturally very similar. The flags of the two nations are almost identical.

Apart from New Zealanders being far more polite one of the main differences between the two nations is their attitude towards being part of the British Commonwealth Realm. Australia keeps threatening to do away with British Queen Elizabeth II as head of state while New Zealand are very pro-Monarchy.

Lorde's big break came in 2013 when she was just 15 years old. Her single; "Royals" was rushed out specifically to coincide with Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour (DWT). It was intended to increase the pressure on Rihanna by reminding her that no matter how many of her fans call her queen she will never be Royal.

So if you were looking to find the significance of the Jerusalem Bay crash feel free to take your pick from any and all of that.

The specific aircraft which crashed was a DHC-2 Beaver. With a name like that sexual innuendo is inevitable.

In production from 1947 to 1967 the DHC-2 Beaver has been a very widely used aircraft. It was used by the British Army Air Corp as a reconnaissance aircraft. Most notably in Aden in what is now Yemen during the 1963-1967 Aden Emergency.

The DHC-2 Beaver was also used during the Northern Irish Troubles which have been a major theme in the war against ISIL.

In one particular incident in November 1979 the aircraft was being used to surveil a checkpoint the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) had established on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. PIRA opened fire on the aircraft nearly shooting it down. As result that area of the border became known as; "Beaver Junction."

The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic has been a major sticking point in negotiations on Britain leaving the European Union (EU) - the "Brexit." A point driven home by the fact one of those killed in the crash - William Cousins - was the head of public relations for; "Open Britain" - a pressure group determined to keep Britain within the EU.

Beyond that the crash seemed to contain a large number of often obscure reference to my life.

One of the largest current operators of particularly the seaplane variant of the DHC-2 is a US company called; "Kenmore Air." This sounds very similar to; "Kenmore Square."

Kenmore Square is a famous area in the US city of Boston, Massachusetts. It sits close to the famous Fenway Park baseball stadium. It is very close to the Watertown area of the city where the March 2013 Boston Marathon bombers were chased. An event that coincided with Rihanna's DWT.

Kenmore Square used to sit in the town of Brookline. However in 1874 the town of Brookline merged with the town of Brighton forming the city of Boston. As such the crash focused on a period of my life when I was living in the British city of Brighton.

The head of the family killed was Richard Cousins Chairman of the Compass group - one of Britain's 100 largest companies.

In British airports and railway stations you often get miniature versions of everyday high street shops such as Marks & Spencers, Starbucks, McDonalds etc. However these shops are not actually operated by those companies. Instead they are run by Compass under complex franchise deals.

As such Compass is probably the largest British retailer that no-one has ever heard of.

I know this because when I was living in Brighton one of my housemates was a manager at one of Compass' outlets.

The killing of such a high powered businessman references the killing of Barry and Honey Sherman on December 15th (15/12/17) in the city of Toronto in that other part of the British Commonwealth Realm Canada. Apart from reminding Rihanna that people are being hung for what she is doing this referenced President Trump's Jerusalem announcement through the rival generic drug maker Teva.

Although it crashed in Jerusalem Bay the flight was en route between Cottage Point and Rose Bay.

Whilst living in Brighton I had a young woman called Rose in my social circle. That social circle also contained a younger gay man.

Within gay male culture there is a practice known as; "Cottaging." This is essentially meeting strangers in an open area like a park for anonymous sex. It recently seems to have been adopted in straight culture through a practice known as; "Dogging."

Having a constant rivalry with Manchester for the title of Britain's gay capital there are obviously quite a few cottaging sites or Cottage points in Brighton.

One night I was out with this social circle - lets say - drinking. The young gay guy decided he wanted to go cottaging. We decided we didn't want to break up the group. So although we had no intention of participating we all accompanied him to this cottage point. We sat at the entrance welcoming people as they came and went about their furtive and sleazy business.

Even as we were doing it we were thinking; "Even for Brighton this is a weird story."

Now I have left Brighton my social circle is much smaller. In fact it is now just me. So I for one am not happy about being forced to migrate from Brighton to London.

In much the same way many of my distant cousins are not happy about their ancestors being forced to migrate to Australia. In the late 19th century.

One of the elements of the December discussion about Rihanna was the crash of a private jet in Germany on December 14th (14/12/17).

Britain very quickly made the connection between a plane crash and a plane crash.

So on December 31st (31/12/17) it responded to the Australian contribution. This took the form of a massive fire at a parking structure in the UK city of Liverpool. Close to the Liverpool Echo Arena where the International Horse Show was taking place.

In 2011 Rihanna along with Jay Z and Kanye West released the song; "Run This Town." Using some highly specious reasoning this song was blamed for the rioting which gripped large parts of the US in 2011.

The British Labour Party used those riots as cover to burn down almost entire city blocks of the London borough of Croydon. Their objective was to clear away the privately owned low rise buildings to replace them with high rise rental properties that the Labour Party could profit from. With talk of a large shopping mall being built in the borough you would think those profits would be significant.

Having gone unpunished for the 2011 arson attacks the Labour Party attempted to repeat the trick by setting fire to the Grenfell Tower in the Kensington & Chelsea borough of London in June 2017. On this occasion they murdered 70 people in an effort to overthrow the democratically elected Conservative government.

So through no fault of her own Rihanna is sadly also linked to the Grenfell Tower fire. Whether Labour will be brought to justice over the attack looks likely to be one of the big stories in the UK throughout 2018.

On December 30th (30/12/17) the UK actually referenced this themselves with a fire at an apartment block in the city of Manchester. As in the Manchester Evening News Arena (MENA) which was bombed on May 22nd (22/5/17).

It is also worth noting that the wife and children of former Labour leader Tony Blair have all invested heavily in the Manchester rental market. Making large profits for themselves and contributing in no small part to the city's growing homelessness problem.

The Liverpool fire occurred at a parking structure serving the "International Horse Show." With a British accent "Horse" can be pronounced to sound like "Whores" as in prostitutes. "International Whore" is certainly one way to describe Rihanna at the moment.

I joke that Rihanna and I were forced into marriage at the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Para-Olympic Games held in London to punish us both for the August 2011 riots.

Throughout 2013 the US were trying to force Rihanna into marriage to Chris Brown in an effort to make her weak and therefore easy to manipulate.

Saudi Arabia is currently trying to force Rihanna into marriage to Hassan Jameel in an effort to use her has a trophy to mock their regional rival Qatar.

This type of forced breeding is particularly common amongst people who raise horses. Particularly race horses.

Known as the Sport of Kings horse racing is very popular amongst the British Monarch and the Gulf Monarchies. Godolphin one of the World's largest horse racing stables is owned by Royal Family of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Britain actually made a bit of a joke along this theme over Christmas. December 27th is one of the busiest days in the British horse racing calender.

So on Christmas Day BBC News' big story focused on the grooms who help make the racing happen. We were told of the importance of being sympathetic to these people who work very hard, away from their families for very little money.

The subtext being that in Britain's eyes I am Rihanna's preferred groom. As in Bridegroom.

At around 18:50 on 2/1/18 (UK date) I'll have to pick this up later. Probably tomorrow.

Edited at around 16:00 on 3/1/18 (UK date) to add;

The killing of Rihanna's cousin may actually have been a clumsy attempt to force us together. After all a murder is the sort of thing that has people sending for their guard dogs.

The problem is that with Rihanna being on the other side of the Atlantic there's not really anyway for us to get in contact. This is the sort of thing I would hesitate to do over the phone rather than in person. It's certainly not something you deal with in public over Twitter.

With her resources it wouldn't actually be that difficult for Rihanna to get into contact with me. However its a bit much to expect her to do that just amid the family drama of her cousin being killed.

If the Australians were trying to get attention with their contribution they certainly succeeded

On December 31st (31/12/17) the US responded with the mass shooting of police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in the Highland Ranch area of Colorado. Boston's Kenmore Square is named after the town of Kenmore in the Scottish Highlands.

The Colorado incident broke late on New Year's Eve evening. As a result for me at least many of the details got lost in the preparations for the big midnight celebration.

However I did pick up on the fact the shooter - Matthew Riehl  - was a US Army  combat veteran. He was honourably discharged in 2012. This was the same year that I was married off to Rihanna and the year before she embarked on her 2013 DWT.

Therefore it could be the US expressing their displeasure at by involvement in the DWT by claiming I'd been discharged from my duties the year before. However I remember the US being very keen for me to be included in the DWT. They just assumed I'd lose.

There was also something about Riehl sending letters to and generally being in dispute with his old university. The reason I originally moved to Brighton was to go to university. However not knowing the details of Riehl dispute I can't say if there are any parallels or not.

At roughly the same time the news was breaking from Colorado news of another plane crash was also starting to emerge. This time from Costa Rica.

Located in Central America Costa Rica sits on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. The killing of Rihanna's cousin in Barbados on the other side of the Caribbean is certainly in their neighborhood.

The Costa Rica plane crash killed 10 US citizens. As with the Australia plane crash this is not something you do as a gesture of friendship.

However unlike the Australia plane crash the Costa Ricans were not blaming the UK for killing Rihanna's cousin. Instead they seemed to be blaming the US for forcing Rihanna into a relationship with Hassan Jameel. Creating the conditions which forced the UK to kill her cousin.

With the exception of the crew all those killed in Costa Rica were members of two Jewish families from New York State. This referenced President Trump's Jerusalem announcement.

It also referenced the killing of Barry and Honey Sherman which itself was done in reference to President Trump's Jerusalem announcement. I'll need to check but I think both the Sherman's and the Steinberg family supported the same liberal Jewish causes.

Mainly though it seemed to be an inquiry about the fire which tore through an apartment building in the Bronx district if New York City (NYC), New York State on December (28/12/17). This killed 12 people.

In an effort to draw comparison's to the Grenfell Tower fire NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio declared it to be a historic tragedy, the likes of which the city had not seen in decades. In fact it struck me as something that was pretty typical for NYC.

Apart from the fire that had occurred in the same building a week before I pointed to a similar fire in the Brooklyn district on December 17th (17/12/17). This killed an entire family of Orthodox Jews.

It also reminded me of a March 2015 fire that killed a family of 9 Orthodox Jews also in Brooklyn. That fire was so shocking on hearing about it I assumed it must have some political dimension.

However after looking at it in detail it turns out it was just a fire. Orthodox Jews are forbidden from doing any work on their Sabbath. This includes flicking electrical switches.

So many of them leave electrical devices like lights and hotplates on throughout the Sabbath. This leads to a lot of accidental fires.

Edited again at around 18:30 on 3/1/18 (UK date) to to tidy the above and add;

Occurring almost directly across the road from Brooklyn Zoo the December 28th (28/12/17) fire was itself an enquiry. About the December 23rd (23/12/17) fire at London Zoo in the UK.

As I've mentioned that was the result of British concerns about how their relationship with Russia would be affected by the TV Show; "McMafia." Hence the reference to St Petersburg.

The December 28th (28/12/17) fire was caused by a child playing with a stove. This was in reference to the Roku box I received for Christmas 2016 but only activated on December 27th (27/12/17).

A Roku box is essentially a modem for your TV. It allows you to connect it to the Internet. The version I've got is supplied by the UK broadcaster Sky so allows you to stream their entertainment, movie and sport channels.

However rather than being received by a satellite dish or TV aerial this content comes via the Internet. So if you can hack someone's Internet connection you can watch what they're watching as they watch it.

I have been known to stream music videos on my computer. Even if I don't tell anyone I'm doing it this still has a way of provoking a reaction.

If I were to start streaming programs like the US TV Show; "False Flag" which is about Israeli spies and a plot to assassinate Iranian leaders that's likely to draw an even more complex reaction.

Also a Roku box is classed as communication technology which in the right hands can have military applications. So there are actually some strict rules about who can buy them and which countries they can be exported to.

The terms and conditions you have to agree to in order to activate the box expressly forbids export to Iraq, Syria, Libya and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK/North). This is due to US antiterrorism sanctions.

Needless to say I opted not to activate my Roku box during the early rounds of meetings in the Astana Process. Instead I waited for the stove to cool down a bit.

The main motivation in setting up the box on the 26th is I wanted to watch an English Premier League match between Crystal Palace and Arsenal the following evening.

Crystal Palace have a player named Fonsu-Mensah. One of the most high profile victims of the December 28th (28/1217) fire was Emmanuel Mensah.

Apparently this soldier died after repeatedly reentering the building to rescue others.

Following the Costa Rica plane crash there have been subsequent fires in both the Bronx and Brooklyn districts of NYC. These are the US checking the Costa Ricans meaning.

18:55 on 3/1/18 (UK date).