I might do a fuller version of this tomorrow but frankly it hardly seems worth the effort indugling it.
A week to the day after the Boston marathon bombings authorities in the US' neighbour Canada have arrested two men who they claim were plotting to derail a passenger train travelling between Toronto in Canada in New York in the US. One of the men, Chiheb Esseghaier comes from Montreal in French Canada while the other, Raed Jaser comes from Toronto in English Canada. The crucial detail is that it is claimed the attack was being planned by al-Qaeda members living in Iran.
As the plot crossed the US/Canada border the investigation also involved members of the US FBI and members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Therefore the plot was clearly an attempt by Canadian intelligence to convince their US counterparts that the Boston bombings were also al-Qaeda attacks linked to Iran. This would then be used to justify much tougher action against Iran in order to boost Saudi domination in the post-Arab Spring middle-east. The Saudis are of course close allies of the UK who are in turn close allies of Canada.
The fact that the plot involved the US/Canada border along with the fact that Rihanna played two concerts in Toronto on March 18th (18/2/13) and March 19th (19/3/13) and will play a concert in Montreal on May 1st (1/5/13) means that it also gave the UK a chance to check up on up what happened the last time Rihanna crossed into Canada and what is likely to happen the next time. It also damages Rihanna's reputation by making it harder for Rihanna to get the stink of the Boston bombings off her.
21:35 on 22/4/13.
Monday, 22 April 2013
Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 3, Day 1.
Today is one week since the bomb attacks at the Boston marathon and will be marked by a moments silence at the moment - 14:50 (local) - the first of the bombs exploded. Today also marks the first of the funerals of the bombing victims with Krystle Campbell being buried. Later today Rihanna is scheduled to perform her concert in Atlanta, Georgia. Therefore this is probably the worst time for me to be saying any of this. However I cannot overstate how much I'd rather be taking the day off.
Sadly that isn't an option because being the first full working day since the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev international reaction to the bombing has started to pour in. It was the US who got the ball rolling with the shooting of five people in the Federal Way district of Seattle, Washington. Apart from bringing in all the elements of Rihanna's recent Seattle concert along with the fact that voters in Washington State actually rejected a ballot initiative to legalise marijuana use at the 2012 Presidential election this a way of conceding that the Federal plan for Boston has largely failed. We are now trying to find out exactly who killed whom and why.
This was quickly matched by the fatal shooting of six people at a hunting/shooting store in the Russian city of Belgorod. The hunt for the suspect or suspects continues. This is clearly a Russian attempt to open up a dialogue with the US over all the issues raised during the Boston attacks. As the Tsarnaev brothers are technically Russian, Russia will be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics and the general level of offence the US has caused over Syria I strongly suggest they take the Russians up on this offer.
Then there is the very peculiar case of the threat of a Columbine style attack on a High School in the Netherlands. Swiss authorities discovered a threat on the Internet forum 4Chan that someone was today going to attack a school in the Netherlands with a 9mm Colt Defender (a very specific detail) and kill their teacher along with as many pupils as possible. The Swiss authorities passed this threat onto the Dutch authorities who took the exceptional step of closing all High Schools across the municipality of Leiden in Holland. They have since arrested an unidentified suspect who is understood to be an expelled pupil from the British School in the neighbouring municipality of Voorschoten. Although the British schools has pupils from a range of nations it is obviously linked to the UK. Therefore this is the old Europe allies of the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland getting together to discuss the failure of the Boston operation. They are obviously blaming that failure on me. The use of 4Chan is a reference to the recent Lonestar College, Texas stabbings. I don't fully get the reference to a 9mm Colt Defender but as it's a pretty standard handgun I guessing it's a reference to that debate about whether I should be allowed to keep and use firearms for my safety and protection. After this last week I'm inclined to say; "Yes" although I'd prefer something bigger then a Defender which strikes me more as a back-up gun.
Finally there has been 16 arrest in Spain (8) and France (8) over a plot in which north-African wealthy businessmen predominately from Morocco were lured to France and Luxembourg by high class prostitutes. Once there they were forced to wear suicide vests and threatened into handing over large sums of money. The suspected leader of the group is an Algerian. This obviously provides a way from France and Spain to discuss the problem of Islamic extremism in the north-Africa region including things like the In Amenas hostage taking and the general situations in Morocco, Algeria, Libya and the knock-on effects in Mali. However the footage released included lots of Rihanna and Chris Brown style pictures of luxury goods such as expensive watches. Also it is claimed that the ring-leader claimed to be working as a security adviser for an unspecified Gulf-nation Sheik. Therefore this seems to be France and Spain discussing the Chris Brown/Rihanna operation which they are blaming on the Gulf Monarchies. The fact that arrests have been made seems to be an indication that they will strike out hard against Chris Brown should he attempt to enter their respective countries. Hopefully this will be the final warning the CIA handlers will simply misinterpret it as a sign of panic and therefore weakness because that's what they want to believe.
The main theme running through all these responses is that the US' Boston operation failed to achieve it's objectives. This should come as no surprise because as soon as the identities of the Tsarnaev brothers was identified Russia were quick to point out that they'd already requested that the FBI mount and investigation into the elder Tsarnaev brother and that investigation was carried out. This is something that investigators should look very hard at - specifically why the case was closed and if it was actually closed or if it was simply passed on to a different agency.
As for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev he is still in a critical but stable condition in hospital. He is on a ventilator and is being heavily sedated. However as is standard practise the medical team are apparently reducing his sedation every 2-3 hours in order to assess his progress and well keeping someone under that level of sedation is not without its risks. During these so-called sedation holidays doctors are allowing Tsarnaev to be questioned by investigators under their tight supervision. This strikes me as something of a futile exercise because if for no other reasons then he's got a breathing tube down his throat Tsarnaev can only answer by nodding or shaking his head. Plus the stress of these brief interviews could actually risk killing him
Hopefully though all involved will tread extremely lightly and Tsarnaev will soon be fit enough to be interviewed properly. Amongst other things I would like to know his views on the Australian soap-opera "Neighbours." On Tuesday (16/4/13) - the day following the marathon bombings - a special, much-hyped episode of Neighbours was broadcast in the UK. This episode featured a wedding attended by all the main characters. At the reception a cooking gas canister exploded causing a Boston like blast that killed and injured many of the main characters. The groom at the wedding was played by Ryan Maloney who you may remember featured in the most recent series of UK Channel 5's (C5) "Celebrity Big Brother." During that series he said something along the lines of the Rihanna backed Spencer and Heidi (Speidi) deserving everything they get because they " just keep saying yes to money." I can't help but feel that Tsarnaev or his co-conspirators were hoping that people would make the connection between the Boston explosions and the Neighbours episode and this would damage Rihanna's reputation by making people think she has no respect for anything other then money.
With still no word on the cancellation of her Boston concert there is actually very little I can say in Rihanna's defence here. That's because when she is with Chris Brown Rihanna turns into a nasty, selfish b*tch basically. Her greed is only outstripped by her incompetence at it. In fact her money management is so poor I'm inclined to say she is going to have to take up every endorsement deal on offer - such as her deal to promote the NBA play-offs - in order to minimise the financial hit she's going to take from this tour going ahead as planned.
16:50 on 22/4/13.
Sadly that isn't an option because being the first full working day since the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev international reaction to the bombing has started to pour in. It was the US who got the ball rolling with the shooting of five people in the Federal Way district of Seattle, Washington. Apart from bringing in all the elements of Rihanna's recent Seattle concert along with the fact that voters in Washington State actually rejected a ballot initiative to legalise marijuana use at the 2012 Presidential election this a way of conceding that the Federal plan for Boston has largely failed. We are now trying to find out exactly who killed whom and why.
This was quickly matched by the fatal shooting of six people at a hunting/shooting store in the Russian city of Belgorod. The hunt for the suspect or suspects continues. This is clearly a Russian attempt to open up a dialogue with the US over all the issues raised during the Boston attacks. As the Tsarnaev brothers are technically Russian, Russia will be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics and the general level of offence the US has caused over Syria I strongly suggest they take the Russians up on this offer.
Then there is the very peculiar case of the threat of a Columbine style attack on a High School in the Netherlands. Swiss authorities discovered a threat on the Internet forum 4Chan that someone was today going to attack a school in the Netherlands with a 9mm Colt Defender (a very specific detail) and kill their teacher along with as many pupils as possible. The Swiss authorities passed this threat onto the Dutch authorities who took the exceptional step of closing all High Schools across the municipality of Leiden in Holland. They have since arrested an unidentified suspect who is understood to be an expelled pupil from the British School in the neighbouring municipality of Voorschoten. Although the British schools has pupils from a range of nations it is obviously linked to the UK. Therefore this is the old Europe allies of the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland getting together to discuss the failure of the Boston operation. They are obviously blaming that failure on me. The use of 4Chan is a reference to the recent Lonestar College, Texas stabbings. I don't fully get the reference to a 9mm Colt Defender but as it's a pretty standard handgun I guessing it's a reference to that debate about whether I should be allowed to keep and use firearms for my safety and protection. After this last week I'm inclined to say; "Yes" although I'd prefer something bigger then a Defender which strikes me more as a back-up gun.
Finally there has been 16 arrest in Spain (8) and France (8) over a plot in which north-African wealthy businessmen predominately from Morocco were lured to France and Luxembourg by high class prostitutes. Once there they were forced to wear suicide vests and threatened into handing over large sums of money. The suspected leader of the group is an Algerian. This obviously provides a way from France and Spain to discuss the problem of Islamic extremism in the north-Africa region including things like the In Amenas hostage taking and the general situations in Morocco, Algeria, Libya and the knock-on effects in Mali. However the footage released included lots of Rihanna and Chris Brown style pictures of luxury goods such as expensive watches. Also it is claimed that the ring-leader claimed to be working as a security adviser for an unspecified Gulf-nation Sheik. Therefore this seems to be France and Spain discussing the Chris Brown/Rihanna operation which they are blaming on the Gulf Monarchies. The fact that arrests have been made seems to be an indication that they will strike out hard against Chris Brown should he attempt to enter their respective countries. Hopefully this will be the final warning the CIA handlers will simply misinterpret it as a sign of panic and therefore weakness because that's what they want to believe.
The main theme running through all these responses is that the US' Boston operation failed to achieve it's objectives. This should come as no surprise because as soon as the identities of the Tsarnaev brothers was identified Russia were quick to point out that they'd already requested that the FBI mount and investigation into the elder Tsarnaev brother and that investigation was carried out. This is something that investigators should look very hard at - specifically why the case was closed and if it was actually closed or if it was simply passed on to a different agency.
As for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev he is still in a critical but stable condition in hospital. He is on a ventilator and is being heavily sedated. However as is standard practise the medical team are apparently reducing his sedation every 2-3 hours in order to assess his progress and well keeping someone under that level of sedation is not without its risks. During these so-called sedation holidays doctors are allowing Tsarnaev to be questioned by investigators under their tight supervision. This strikes me as something of a futile exercise because if for no other reasons then he's got a breathing tube down his throat Tsarnaev can only answer by nodding or shaking his head. Plus the stress of these brief interviews could actually risk killing him
Hopefully though all involved will tread extremely lightly and Tsarnaev will soon be fit enough to be interviewed properly. Amongst other things I would like to know his views on the Australian soap-opera "Neighbours." On Tuesday (16/4/13) - the day following the marathon bombings - a special, much-hyped episode of Neighbours was broadcast in the UK. This episode featured a wedding attended by all the main characters. At the reception a cooking gas canister exploded causing a Boston like blast that killed and injured many of the main characters. The groom at the wedding was played by Ryan Maloney who you may remember featured in the most recent series of UK Channel 5's (C5) "Celebrity Big Brother." During that series he said something along the lines of the Rihanna backed Spencer and Heidi (Speidi) deserving everything they get because they " just keep saying yes to money." I can't help but feel that Tsarnaev or his co-conspirators were hoping that people would make the connection between the Boston explosions and the Neighbours episode and this would damage Rihanna's reputation by making people think she has no respect for anything other then money.
With still no word on the cancellation of her Boston concert there is actually very little I can say in Rihanna's defence here. That's because when she is with Chris Brown Rihanna turns into a nasty, selfish b*tch basically. Her greed is only outstripped by her incompetence at it. In fact her money management is so poor I'm inclined to say she is going to have to take up every endorsement deal on offer - such as her deal to promote the NBA play-offs - in order to minimise the financial hit she's going to take from this tour going ahead as planned.
16:50 on 22/4/13.
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 2, Day 7.
On Friday (19/4/13) Rihanna's biggest fan - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - decided to pay tribute to her in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts. Unfortunately Rihanna didn't seem to appreciate this sending out a Tweet confiming to him that she was playing a concert in Tampa, Florida that evening and appearing to urge him to kill himself before that concert began.
Fortunately Tsarnaev didn't appear to get this message so Rihanna was forced to board a private jet from Los Angles to Tampa while Tsarnaev was still unaccounted for. Realising that they'd been busted by paparazzi at the airport one on Rihanna's core social group (Leleboo246 apparently) posted an Instagram picture of Rihanna boarding the aircraft. Unfortunately that picture provided so little information that the aircraft was barely identifiable as an aircraft. However I suspect it is the Lear jet commonly leased by Chris Brown. I hope he's getting the bill for this particular trip. With Tsarnaev still in the wind and after some prodding Rihanna eventually posted a picture on Instagram/Twitter showing that the aircraft had arrived somewhere (we assume Florida). In the picture Rihanna was shown in the cockpit at the flight controls. This was supposed to look like an attempt to promote the upcoming documentary about her 777 Tour but also seemed like an attempt by Rihanna to show that she was in command and she was in control.
At roughly the time the doors opened for Rihanna's concert (18:30 local) Tsarnaev made himself known to local law enforcement and proceeded to have an armed stand-off with them. Fortunately due to events on the ground local law enforcement were forced to end that stand-off at roughly 21:00 - when Rihanna is supposed to go on stage. However if you have been following the tour you would know that Rihanna rarely appears on stage until roughly 22:00. On Friday Rihanna didn't actually appear on stage until around 22:15 in order to make way for the local press conference and the Presidential press statement on the capture of Tsarnaev. I think this was a thoroughly sensible idea and helped to explain why there was a tense and strange atmosphere throughout the concert.
I would like to say that Rihanna coped with this well but that would be stretching the truth. As she laboured her way through her usual set-list (Acts 2&3 switched) and costume changes Rihanna was clearly nervous constantly grabbing her, erm, 'fanbase.' She also made a lot of effort to appear tired and lethargic as if she was recovering from a bout of illness. She clearly wasn't ill though because although weighed down by smoking her voice was strong. Unfortunately she was either smoking marijuana between acts or the marijuana she'd smoked before the concert was wearing off so she proceed to visibly wilt as the concert progressed to the point she seemed barely present by the end of the show.
On Saturday (20/4/13) Rihanna moved onto Fort Lauderdale which is really close to Miami (it only sounds right when Gabrielle Anwar says it) in Florida. Very little information about the show is available with no official information, no local concert review and only a few YouTube videos available. However it is clear that while Rihanna's performance was much better then it was in Tampa it was still very, very weak with Rihanna working her way through her usual set-list (no idea of the running order) and costume changes.
The reason for this was quite clear - it was April 20th. In the US the High School day ends around 16:00 so teenage marijuana users are normally stoned by 16:20. As stoned US teenagers can neither tell the time nor write the date properly they have adopted April 20th (4/20) as a day to honour marijuana in such a childish and imbecilic way as to make me ashamed to have ever smoked weed. Rihanna and her core social group clearly don't feel the same way as me and posted lots of pictures on Instagram/Twitter of them getting stoned along with pictures of lots of gifts sent by fans 'celebrating' Rihanna's love of the herb.
With the addition of alcohol this clearly led to the evening taking something of a militant turn. Not only did Rihanna and her core social group proceed to attend a strip-club they also posted a lot of Instagram/Twitter pictures of them visiting a strip-club. This was a not totally coherent attempt to push the issue of Melissa Forde's alleged homosexuality while promoting discussion about Rihanna's apparent love of money. I'm also arrogant enough to assume this was a way of telling me that they knew I'd been watching a "PlayboyTV" 'documentary' about the strip-club scene in Tampa, Florida. Based on patterns of life surveillance this could have just been a bluff but either way it clearly made Rihanna grumpy. However I think I've already explained why Rihanna has a certain affinity with strippers and strip-clubs.
One thing that probably contributed to Rihanna's general level of militancy was the realisation that the hashtag #LatinoAmericaNeedsDiamondsWorldTour trending worldwide on Twitter was not a compliment. Although Rihanna clearly has lots of fans in Latin America who would happily re-tweet this the trend seems to have been started as a South American reponse to the Boston bombings. The message clearly being; "If that's all you've got, Bring it On!"
However as local Boston law enforcement and my Internet connection are both clearly getting a bit stressy this seems an appropriate time to post my first draft of this while going off to have dinner.
20:30 on 21/4/13.
Edited at around 23:30 on 21/4/13 to possibly tidy up some of the above.
Edited again at around 23:45 on 21/4/13 to add: We don't want to spoil the integrity of the document too much so;
Anyway a large part of the reason that South America - not just the boys - is highly amused by Rihanna's current efforts is because that while I was being flippant about the Boston marathon bombings being a Venezuelan conspiracy the events of last Monday (15/4/13) certainly raised the level of violence involved in street level discussions about that nation's disputed election result. Personally I thought it best not to get involved in that situation until I've had the opportunity to read up on the election results or at least learn the names of the competitors.
However I must say that the reason I didn't bother to do that beforehand was because I was confident that Nicolas Maduro would win by a large margin. Therefore if there has been any vote rigging - I'm not saying there has been - the reasons why could be almost infinite. It could have been the CIA trying to help the other guy win, it could have been that small group of families trying to help the other guy win or it could have been the judicary registering a protest against the way Chavez did things. Hell it could even have been Maduro himself trying to raise pertinent questions about Kenya's recent election.
Another thing that could have contributed to Rihanna's current level of grumpy is concerns about how her tour will continue in the wake of the Boston marathon bombings. Here we've had a genuine bit of good luck.
The sole suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently in a serious but stable condition in Boston's Beth Israel hospital. I've heard that he tried to cut his own throat so local SWAT blasted him in the lower limbs with a shot-gun. If you know a bit about how shot-guns and explosives work considering the type of bombs Tsarnaev is accused of planting this is downright hilarious. Either way I don't see him being fit to be charged with any offence for the next 3-4 weeks. The 48 hour public safety exemption to Miranda has already expired.
The US leg of Rihanna's tour is scheduled to end in Brooklyn on May 5th (5/5/13) which is well within that 4 week limit. Therefore I think the rest of the tour should be able to go ahead without too much damage. However I think the already rescheduled Boston (6/5/13) concert should be cancelled at least a week in advance as a mark of respect. That's because the handlers have no chance of selling the threat of violence or protests ahead of the Morocco (24/5/13) concert. They do though have an excellent chance of selling a reality in which people just "tut" loudly whenever a Rihanna song comes on the radio and that level of mild annoyance gets translated into them never buying a Rihanna song/concert ticket/perfume/clothe ever again.
Obviously though people will be looking to Boston for a final answer even if I think I've just chanced on an excellent enhanced interrogation technique for DT.
00:15 on 22?4/13.
Fortunately Tsarnaev didn't appear to get this message so Rihanna was forced to board a private jet from Los Angles to Tampa while Tsarnaev was still unaccounted for. Realising that they'd been busted by paparazzi at the airport one on Rihanna's core social group (Leleboo246 apparently) posted an Instagram picture of Rihanna boarding the aircraft. Unfortunately that picture provided so little information that the aircraft was barely identifiable as an aircraft. However I suspect it is the Lear jet commonly leased by Chris Brown. I hope he's getting the bill for this particular trip. With Tsarnaev still in the wind and after some prodding Rihanna eventually posted a picture on Instagram/Twitter showing that the aircraft had arrived somewhere (we assume Florida). In the picture Rihanna was shown in the cockpit at the flight controls. This was supposed to look like an attempt to promote the upcoming documentary about her 777 Tour but also seemed like an attempt by Rihanna to show that she was in command and she was in control.
At roughly the time the doors opened for Rihanna's concert (18:30 local) Tsarnaev made himself known to local law enforcement and proceeded to have an armed stand-off with them. Fortunately due to events on the ground local law enforcement were forced to end that stand-off at roughly 21:00 - when Rihanna is supposed to go on stage. However if you have been following the tour you would know that Rihanna rarely appears on stage until roughly 22:00. On Friday Rihanna didn't actually appear on stage until around 22:15 in order to make way for the local press conference and the Presidential press statement on the capture of Tsarnaev. I think this was a thoroughly sensible idea and helped to explain why there was a tense and strange atmosphere throughout the concert.
I would like to say that Rihanna coped with this well but that would be stretching the truth. As she laboured her way through her usual set-list (Acts 2&3 switched) and costume changes Rihanna was clearly nervous constantly grabbing her, erm, 'fanbase.' She also made a lot of effort to appear tired and lethargic as if she was recovering from a bout of illness. She clearly wasn't ill though because although weighed down by smoking her voice was strong. Unfortunately she was either smoking marijuana between acts or the marijuana she'd smoked before the concert was wearing off so she proceed to visibly wilt as the concert progressed to the point she seemed barely present by the end of the show.
On Saturday (20/4/13) Rihanna moved onto Fort Lauderdale which is really close to Miami (it only sounds right when Gabrielle Anwar says it) in Florida. Very little information about the show is available with no official information, no local concert review and only a few YouTube videos available. However it is clear that while Rihanna's performance was much better then it was in Tampa it was still very, very weak with Rihanna working her way through her usual set-list (no idea of the running order) and costume changes.
The reason for this was quite clear - it was April 20th. In the US the High School day ends around 16:00 so teenage marijuana users are normally stoned by 16:20. As stoned US teenagers can neither tell the time nor write the date properly they have adopted April 20th (4/20) as a day to honour marijuana in such a childish and imbecilic way as to make me ashamed to have ever smoked weed. Rihanna and her core social group clearly don't feel the same way as me and posted lots of pictures on Instagram/Twitter of them getting stoned along with pictures of lots of gifts sent by fans 'celebrating' Rihanna's love of the herb.
With the addition of alcohol this clearly led to the evening taking something of a militant turn. Not only did Rihanna and her core social group proceed to attend a strip-club they also posted a lot of Instagram/Twitter pictures of them visiting a strip-club. This was a not totally coherent attempt to push the issue of Melissa Forde's alleged homosexuality while promoting discussion about Rihanna's apparent love of money. I'm also arrogant enough to assume this was a way of telling me that they knew I'd been watching a "PlayboyTV" 'documentary' about the strip-club scene in Tampa, Florida. Based on patterns of life surveillance this could have just been a bluff but either way it clearly made Rihanna grumpy. However I think I've already explained why Rihanna has a certain affinity with strippers and strip-clubs.
One thing that probably contributed to Rihanna's general level of militancy was the realisation that the hashtag #LatinoAmericaNeedsDiamondsWorldTour trending worldwide on Twitter was not a compliment. Although Rihanna clearly has lots of fans in Latin America who would happily re-tweet this the trend seems to have been started as a South American reponse to the Boston bombings. The message clearly being; "If that's all you've got, Bring it On!"
However as local Boston law enforcement and my Internet connection are both clearly getting a bit stressy this seems an appropriate time to post my first draft of this while going off to have dinner.
20:30 on 21/4/13.
Edited at around 23:30 on 21/4/13 to possibly tidy up some of the above.
Edited again at around 23:45 on 21/4/13 to add: We don't want to spoil the integrity of the document too much so;
Anyway a large part of the reason that South America - not just the boys - is highly amused by Rihanna's current efforts is because that while I was being flippant about the Boston marathon bombings being a Venezuelan conspiracy the events of last Monday (15/4/13) certainly raised the level of violence involved in street level discussions about that nation's disputed election result. Personally I thought it best not to get involved in that situation until I've had the opportunity to read up on the election results or at least learn the names of the competitors.
However I must say that the reason I didn't bother to do that beforehand was because I was confident that Nicolas Maduro would win by a large margin. Therefore if there has been any vote rigging - I'm not saying there has been - the reasons why could be almost infinite. It could have been the CIA trying to help the other guy win, it could have been that small group of families trying to help the other guy win or it could have been the judicary registering a protest against the way Chavez did things. Hell it could even have been Maduro himself trying to raise pertinent questions about Kenya's recent election.
Another thing that could have contributed to Rihanna's current level of grumpy is concerns about how her tour will continue in the wake of the Boston marathon bombings. Here we've had a genuine bit of good luck.
The sole suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently in a serious but stable condition in Boston's Beth Israel hospital. I've heard that he tried to cut his own throat so local SWAT blasted him in the lower limbs with a shot-gun. If you know a bit about how shot-guns and explosives work considering the type of bombs Tsarnaev is accused of planting this is downright hilarious. Either way I don't see him being fit to be charged with any offence for the next 3-4 weeks. The 48 hour public safety exemption to Miranda has already expired.
The US leg of Rihanna's tour is scheduled to end in Brooklyn on May 5th (5/5/13) which is well within that 4 week limit. Therefore I think the rest of the tour should be able to go ahead without too much damage. However I think the already rescheduled Boston (6/5/13) concert should be cancelled at least a week in advance as a mark of respect. That's because the handlers have no chance of selling the threat of violence or protests ahead of the Morocco (24/5/13) concert. They do though have an excellent chance of selling a reality in which people just "tut" loudly whenever a Rihanna song comes on the radio and that level of mild annoyance gets translated into them never buying a Rihanna song/concert ticket/perfume/clothe ever again.
Obviously though people will be looking to Boston for a final answer even if I think I've just chanced on an excellent enhanced interrogation technique for DT.
00:15 on 22?4/13.
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Boston Bombing Suspect Arrested.
At roughly the time the doors opened for Rihanna's concert in Tampa, Florida Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was discovered hiding a boat in the backyard of a house in Watertown, Massachusetts. It appears that Tsarnaev had been hiding in that location since escaping from the police during the gun battle in which his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed. There are obvious question to be asked about why that location was amongst the last to be searched and why it was searched at the time it was. However it appears that Tsarnaev himself chose that time by exposing his location to neighbours and every search has got start somewhere and end somewhere.
Beyond that though the police's conduct was exemplary. Despite coming under fire from the suspect rather then storming in all guns blazing they surrounded the boat and attempted to negotiate with him. A part of this negotiation was extensive use of stun grenades which is a standard tactic intended to disorientate the suspect and basically exhaust them. After close to two hours of negotiation it became clear that Tsarnaev had been wounded in the gun battle that killed his brother and would likely die of those injuries before giving himself up. So the police took the tough decision to assault the boat shooting Tsarnaev with a shot-gun in the process. A shot-gun is of course one of the least lethal weapons in a SWAT team's arsenal. Once he'd been disarmed Tsarnaev was given immediate medical attention at the scene before being transferred to the Beth Israel hospital in Boston where he is said to be in serious but stable condition under armed guard.
The fact that Tsarnaev was hiding in a boat was clearly a reference to Rihanna's fanbase known as "The Navy." It was also intended to be a reference to the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship by Somali pirates. This ended with the pirates being killed by US Navy SEALs after they had abandoned the ship and were holding their hostages in a small life boat similar in size to the boat Tsarnaev was hiding in. This was obviously intended to promote discussion about Somalia, piracy and the wider east African region which in includes controversial nations such as the Sudans, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda and by extension the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). The discussion of Navy SEALs also touches on the killing of Osama bin Laden and is just another little Rihanna reference.
The fact that the boat had been wrapped in plastic to protect it from the winter weather was a reference to Judaism and Israel. Specifically a very extreme sect of Juadism whose priests are forbidden from coming in contact with the dead even to the extent that they're not allowed to walk through graveyards. This presents quite a problem when they try and fly in or out of Israel's Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv because it is surrounded by I think four cemeteries. They have though come up with the quite bizarre solution of wrapping themselves up in giant plastic bags as they sit in their aeroplane seats. Pictures of one such priest doing this went viral last week after some snapped a picture and uploaded it to the Internet proving that even Orthodox Jews think those guys are a bit odd.
I think even before Tsarnaev arrived at the hospital a debate started about his legal rights as a prisoner with FBI officials announcing that he had been and will be questioned without his Miranda rights (5th Amendment US Constitution basically) citing a public-safety exemption. Today Republican Senators called for Tsarnaev to be deemed a irregular combatant which basically means he has no rights at all and is a designation used for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. This obviously intended to promote discussion to the US' responses to the 9/11 attacks in terms of things like Guantanamo Bay and the Patriot Act(s). The reference to irregular combatants has a specific resonance in terms of Syria where those who support the Saudi and Qatari Irregular Army (SQIA) who are irregular combatants have long attempted to argue that there is anything that Syria forces are not allowed to do them. Legally they're quite wrong.
The Miranda issue particularly worries me but not because I have any great concern for Tsarnaev rights. In order to use a public safety exemption there needs to be a continuing threat to public safety - the arrest of a single member of a larger terrorist cell being a prime example. Although I think Tsarnaev is just a small part of a much wider conspiracy I don't think there will be much in the way of Court admissible evidence to support that nor do I think Tsarnaev's co-conspirators will be handing themselves in any time soon. Immediately after Tsarnaev's arrest state and federal officials announced that they considered the situation to be over and that there is no indication that Tsarnaev had any accomplices. Therefore it is questionable that they will meet the legal criteria needed for a public-safety exemption to Miranda. To me this looks like someone is already trying to help Tsarnaev escape prosecution. That will obviously cause public outrage leading to increased support for the post-9/11 measures such as the Patriot Act(s).
As for the irregular combatant issue I've always found that deeply stupid. For example in the discussion of Margaret Thatcher's time as UK Prime Minister I mentioned that she watched 10 Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners starve themselves to death. The reason those IRA prisoners were on hunger strike was in an effort to get themselves declared political prisoners rather then just common criminals as that would add credibility to their cause. Therefore I can't help but thinking that classing Tsarnaev as an irregular combatant will only add legitimacy to what ever grievance he is going to claim drove him to carry out the attacks.
That said though I don't think that Tsarnaev should be treated as a common criminal. For example providing there is at least prima facia evidence that he is actually the guy who has carried out the attacks I have no problem with investigators being given as long as they need to question him - I for one will be very interested in his feelings towards Rihanna. Obviously I think he should be treated humanely through out that questioning. As for the issue of legal counsel it's actually very common that people who have an attorney appointed to them because they cannot afford an attorney to discover that they've been appointed a really, really bad attorney.
I think those are all questions that can wait for a later date because Tsarnaev is clearly not in a position to be interviewed with or without a lawyer present. That could raise problems with the amount of time Tsarnaev can be held before trial although I should point out that in the UK it doesn't because if a person under arrest is taken to hospital the so-called 'custody clock' stops which is just one of the dirty tricks the police can use to extend a persons stay in custody. However if it is a problem in the Tsarnaev case the solutions quite simple - you just de-arrest him while he is in hospital and re-arrest him when he is fit enough to be interviewed although that could further aid his defence depending on the Judge.
21:15 on 20/4/13.
Edited at around 00:05 on 21/4/13 to add;
Although I don't want to prejudice the discussion about Miranda rights with the suspect captured I consider my role in this to be over. So while I will continue to keep an eye on things I'm going to try and focus on getting back to my normal routine. As a result I'm going to stick a load of laundry on and go to bed.
Before that though the indications are that a public defender (attorney) is going to be appointed to Tsarnaev. This seems a sensible step because as Obama learnt from his failure to close down Guantanamo Bay it is a lot easier to move someone from the civilian legal system to the military one then it is to move someone from the military system to the civilian one.
Also an unnamed federal source is saying that Tsarnaev has suffered a throat injury that will prevent him from talking. This may be true after all shot-gun pellets are rarely good for the vocal cords. However I should point out that within both the West explosion and the current small fire at a UK nuclear plant there is quite a technical discussion about town planning/zoning. The UK is currently reforming it's planning laws so you get the feeling that certain people were hoping that the two incidents would trigger me into writing that dissertation for my uncompleted BA in Urban Geography. As you may have noticed I'm not talking.
Beyond that though the police's conduct was exemplary. Despite coming under fire from the suspect rather then storming in all guns blazing they surrounded the boat and attempted to negotiate with him. A part of this negotiation was extensive use of stun grenades which is a standard tactic intended to disorientate the suspect and basically exhaust them. After close to two hours of negotiation it became clear that Tsarnaev had been wounded in the gun battle that killed his brother and would likely die of those injuries before giving himself up. So the police took the tough decision to assault the boat shooting Tsarnaev with a shot-gun in the process. A shot-gun is of course one of the least lethal weapons in a SWAT team's arsenal. Once he'd been disarmed Tsarnaev was given immediate medical attention at the scene before being transferred to the Beth Israel hospital in Boston where he is said to be in serious but stable condition under armed guard.
The fact that Tsarnaev was hiding in a boat was clearly a reference to Rihanna's fanbase known as "The Navy." It was also intended to be a reference to the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship by Somali pirates. This ended with the pirates being killed by US Navy SEALs after they had abandoned the ship and were holding their hostages in a small life boat similar in size to the boat Tsarnaev was hiding in. This was obviously intended to promote discussion about Somalia, piracy and the wider east African region which in includes controversial nations such as the Sudans, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda and by extension the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). The discussion of Navy SEALs also touches on the killing of Osama bin Laden and is just another little Rihanna reference.
The fact that the boat had been wrapped in plastic to protect it from the winter weather was a reference to Judaism and Israel. Specifically a very extreme sect of Juadism whose priests are forbidden from coming in contact with the dead even to the extent that they're not allowed to walk through graveyards. This presents quite a problem when they try and fly in or out of Israel's Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv because it is surrounded by I think four cemeteries. They have though come up with the quite bizarre solution of wrapping themselves up in giant plastic bags as they sit in their aeroplane seats. Pictures of one such priest doing this went viral last week after some snapped a picture and uploaded it to the Internet proving that even Orthodox Jews think those guys are a bit odd.
I think even before Tsarnaev arrived at the hospital a debate started about his legal rights as a prisoner with FBI officials announcing that he had been and will be questioned without his Miranda rights (5th Amendment US Constitution basically) citing a public-safety exemption. Today Republican Senators called for Tsarnaev to be deemed a irregular combatant which basically means he has no rights at all and is a designation used for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. This obviously intended to promote discussion to the US' responses to the 9/11 attacks in terms of things like Guantanamo Bay and the Patriot Act(s). The reference to irregular combatants has a specific resonance in terms of Syria where those who support the Saudi and Qatari Irregular Army (SQIA) who are irregular combatants have long attempted to argue that there is anything that Syria forces are not allowed to do them. Legally they're quite wrong.
The Miranda issue particularly worries me but not because I have any great concern for Tsarnaev rights. In order to use a public safety exemption there needs to be a continuing threat to public safety - the arrest of a single member of a larger terrorist cell being a prime example. Although I think Tsarnaev is just a small part of a much wider conspiracy I don't think there will be much in the way of Court admissible evidence to support that nor do I think Tsarnaev's co-conspirators will be handing themselves in any time soon. Immediately after Tsarnaev's arrest state and federal officials announced that they considered the situation to be over and that there is no indication that Tsarnaev had any accomplices. Therefore it is questionable that they will meet the legal criteria needed for a public-safety exemption to Miranda. To me this looks like someone is already trying to help Tsarnaev escape prosecution. That will obviously cause public outrage leading to increased support for the post-9/11 measures such as the Patriot Act(s).
As for the irregular combatant issue I've always found that deeply stupid. For example in the discussion of Margaret Thatcher's time as UK Prime Minister I mentioned that she watched 10 Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners starve themselves to death. The reason those IRA prisoners were on hunger strike was in an effort to get themselves declared political prisoners rather then just common criminals as that would add credibility to their cause. Therefore I can't help but thinking that classing Tsarnaev as an irregular combatant will only add legitimacy to what ever grievance he is going to claim drove him to carry out the attacks.
That said though I don't think that Tsarnaev should be treated as a common criminal. For example providing there is at least prima facia evidence that he is actually the guy who has carried out the attacks I have no problem with investigators being given as long as they need to question him - I for one will be very interested in his feelings towards Rihanna. Obviously I think he should be treated humanely through out that questioning. As for the issue of legal counsel it's actually very common that people who have an attorney appointed to them because they cannot afford an attorney to discover that they've been appointed a really, really bad attorney.
I think those are all questions that can wait for a later date because Tsarnaev is clearly not in a position to be interviewed with or without a lawyer present. That could raise problems with the amount of time Tsarnaev can be held before trial although I should point out that in the UK it doesn't because if a person under arrest is taken to hospital the so-called 'custody clock' stops which is just one of the dirty tricks the police can use to extend a persons stay in custody. However if it is a problem in the Tsarnaev case the solutions quite simple - you just de-arrest him while he is in hospital and re-arrest him when he is fit enough to be interviewed although that could further aid his defence depending on the Judge.
21:15 on 20/4/13.
Edited at around 00:05 on 21/4/13 to add;
Although I don't want to prejudice the discussion about Miranda rights with the suspect captured I consider my role in this to be over. So while I will continue to keep an eye on things I'm going to try and focus on getting back to my normal routine. As a result I'm going to stick a load of laundry on and go to bed.
Before that though the indications are that a public defender (attorney) is going to be appointed to Tsarnaev. This seems a sensible step because as Obama learnt from his failure to close down Guantanamo Bay it is a lot easier to move someone from the civilian legal system to the military one then it is to move someone from the military system to the civilian one.
Also an unnamed federal source is saying that Tsarnaev has suffered a throat injury that will prevent him from talking. This may be true after all shot-gun pellets are rarely good for the vocal cords. However I should point out that within both the West explosion and the current small fire at a UK nuclear plant there is quite a technical discussion about town planning/zoning. The UK is currently reforming it's planning laws so you get the feeling that certain people were hoping that the two incidents would trigger me into writing that dissertation for my uncompleted BA in Urban Geography. As you may have noticed I'm not talking.
Friday, 19 April 2013
Do Boston Stores Do TartanPaint
While I've been in the gym the primary suspect in the Boston marathon bombings with hell and buggery for a name has not violently engaged with law enforcement. As far as we know he has not violently engaged with anybody else. Law enforcement did put out a call for a suspect vehicle; MA Plate: 316-ES9, ’99 Honda CRV, Color - Gray. That has since been recovered unattended and is being examined for evidence. We are currently having a flurry of FBI/Police/Fire activity in a specific area of Watertown.
In the meantime I have decided that the primary suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will henceforth be referred to as "DT."
As we await for details of last night's United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Syria to emerge I am expecting a long and tense wait. Although this situation can rapidly change the next big flashpoint I can see is Rihanna's concert in Tampa. Florida. Doors are scheduled to open at around 18:30 local however at this point formal confirmation will be required.
In the meantime I suggest that residents in the greater Boston area do exactly what the police tell them to do exactly when the police tell them to do it.
15:10 on 19/4/13.
In the meantime I have decided that the primary suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will henceforth be referred to as "DT."
As we await for details of last night's United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Syria to emerge I am expecting a long and tense wait. Although this situation can rapidly change the next big flashpoint I can see is Rihanna's concert in Tampa. Florida. Doors are scheduled to open at around 18:30 local however at this point formal confirmation will be required.
In the meantime I suggest that residents in the greater Boston area do exactly what the police tell them to do exactly when the police tell them to do it.
15:10 on 19/4/13.
Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 2, Day 5 - Man Down.
It has been confirmed in the last few hours that the suspect in the Boston marathon bombings has been shot and killed by the police. This is still a confused and developing situation so what I'm about to write should not be considered a wholly accurate and complete account of the events.
However it appears that the two suspects decided to make themselves known to the police by attempting to rob a "7/11" type convience store close to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) university in Cambridge, Massachusetts at around 03:00GMT (22:00 local). This emergency call was responded to by at least one officer from MIT's campus police. This police officer was shot and killed by the suspects who proceeded to hijack a car and drive west while being pursued by other police officers. There are reports of shots being fired during that car chase but it seems the suspects decided to stop their vehicle in the town of "Watertown," Massachusetts in order to make their last stand in a place that is a clear reference to the so-called 'water wars' which is very big issue in the middle-east and the area of central Africa known as the "Five Lakes Region" that includes the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Coming under sustained fire and no doubt pumped up by the death of their brother officer the police shot and killed the suspect known as "WhiteHat" who was pronounced dead in hospital at around 06:15GMT (01:15 local).
Fortunately the other suspect known as "BlackHat" appears to have escaped the scene alive. While I fully appreciate that it might not be the police officers choice to make I hope BlackHat is taken alive. That's because I'd much rather be watching his trial than a lenghty and very public investigation into the conduct of the police officers and medical staff involved in his final hours. Such an investigation will obviously be spun into a metaphor for the killing of Osama bin Laden and the killing of Mohamed Merah in Toulouse, France.
Sadly though I suspect BlackHat will be making himself availible for suicide by cop right around the time I'm going to the gym. So prepare for Twitter (@Sovereignaka) updates.
10:00 on 19/4/13.
Edited at around 11:25 on 19/4/13 to formally correct my mistake. Authorities have always said that it was the BlackHat suspect who was killed and the WhiteHat suspect who remains at large.
The Associated Press news agency have gone further and identified WhiteHat as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a 19 year old from the Chechnya region of Russia. BlackHat is suspected of being his brother although I have not further details on his name or age. This information has not being verified by any other source.
However as people are already talking about it I should point out that there is a world of difference between a Chechen militant and a Russian militant and due to military conscription there are a lot of guns for hire in that region. It would though be a perfect way to explore Russia's attitudes towards Islam and Israel with the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings and the 2012 killing of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria which was largely based on the Syrian backed militia Hezbollah being the key events.
However it appears that the two suspects decided to make themselves known to the police by attempting to rob a "7/11" type convience store close to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) university in Cambridge, Massachusetts at around 03:00GMT (22:00 local). This emergency call was responded to by at least one officer from MIT's campus police. This police officer was shot and killed by the suspects who proceeded to hijack a car and drive west while being pursued by other police officers. There are reports of shots being fired during that car chase but it seems the suspects decided to stop their vehicle in the town of "Watertown," Massachusetts in order to make their last stand in a place that is a clear reference to the so-called 'water wars' which is very big issue in the middle-east and the area of central Africa known as the "Five Lakes Region" that includes the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Coming under sustained fire and no doubt pumped up by the death of their brother officer the police shot and killed the suspect known as "WhiteHat" who was pronounced dead in hospital at around 06:15GMT (01:15 local).
Fortunately the other suspect known as "BlackHat" appears to have escaped the scene alive. While I fully appreciate that it might not be the police officers choice to make I hope BlackHat is taken alive. That's because I'd much rather be watching his trial than a lenghty and very public investigation into the conduct of the police officers and medical staff involved in his final hours. Such an investigation will obviously be spun into a metaphor for the killing of Osama bin Laden and the killing of Mohamed Merah in Toulouse, France.
Sadly though I suspect BlackHat will be making himself availible for suicide by cop right around the time I'm going to the gym. So prepare for Twitter (@Sovereignaka) updates.
10:00 on 19/4/13.
Edited at around 11:25 on 19/4/13 to formally correct my mistake. Authorities have always said that it was the BlackHat suspect who was killed and the WhiteHat suspect who remains at large.
The Associated Press news agency have gone further and identified WhiteHat as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a 19 year old from the Chechnya region of Russia. BlackHat is suspected of being his brother although I have not further details on his name or age. This information has not being verified by any other source.
However as people are already talking about it I should point out that there is a world of difference between a Chechen militant and a Russian militant and due to military conscription there are a lot of guns for hire in that region. It would though be a perfect way to explore Russia's attitudes towards Islam and Israel with the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings and the 2012 killing of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria which was largely based on the Syrian backed militia Hezbollah being the key events.
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 2, Day 4.5 - I've Given up on Fancy Titles.
Today has been a very, very busy day. So busy in fact that I'm still trying to figure out where to start. The beginning seems the best place.
Shortly after I went to bed a massive explosion ripped through the town of "West" which is in north-east Texas but only 20 miles north of the city of "Waco" which according to Wikipedia claims to be the 'Heart of Texas.' I think I covered all the big bits in my first post of the day. However I should add that as all the chemicals from the West Fertiliser plant slowly seep into the groundwater there is going to be a big discussion about pollution effects of agro-business on the environment. The fact that the USGS took the effort to measure the 'quake is also intended to promote discussion about the practise of 'Fracking.' This is more formally known as "Hydraulic Fracturing" and is used to extract natural gas from deposits of shale rock. It has been linked to all sorts of nasty environmental stuff such as toxic contamination of the ground water supply and micro-earthquakes although it's really time for people to whip out their latest research. The UK says no. I say they're lying.
Also the targeting of a chemical plant next to an old people's home was intended to make it look like the UK and the US have got some big discussion going on about my case go. This is far too large a topic for me to get into now but it includes things like;
Edited at around 00:15 on 19/4/13 to add;
Anyway what helped put out the fire in West and speed up the discussion about the environmental impacts was the weather which was made up of rain, thunder, lightning and hail. These were remarkably similar to the weather conditions in Croydon today which was easily predictable. The reason I know this is that I was forced to go out in it (well I got my father to drive me because the UK government are still holding on to the delusion that I haven't passed my driving test - they're going to force him to take one again soon) to go to the local supermarket. At this point I'm trying to work out whether it would be easier to fix my scanner, post a dodgy photograph of the receipt on Twitter or type up a list of the 13 items I brought. Suffice to say though it was things like carrots, onions, tomatoes, wine, chocolate, microwave curry commonly known as 'the usual cr'p.'
Much later (while we were watching the BBC1 memory documentary) I got my father to remember that long road trip my father and my sister of multiple eating disorders took through Texas and Oklahoma in I think the summer of 2003. Although my father was hardly in a truthful mood he did confirm had they did indeed stop off in Waco. It was in Oklahoma though that they chanced on a town so small the Mayor, Chief of Police and Fire Chief immediately came out to give the British people an honour guard of one. The Mayor/Police Chief/Fire Chief then proceed to give them a ride in the town's new fire engine. The depressing bit is I genuinely don't think he knew who they were he was just really proud of the new fire engine.
Also today there has been yet another sectarian bombing in Baghdad, Iraq which is just the latest in a very long line of sectarian bombings in Iraq following the 2003 UK/US invasion. What makes this particular bombing (27 dead last I heard) different though is that the device detonated in a coffee shop moments after I made my Tweet about me drinking coffee. Therefore I think this one was carried out by the CIA to promote discussion about the 2003 invasion along with it's knock-on effects in both Iraq and Syria. I'm either too drunk or not drunk enough to get into all that. However the short version is; The US invasion essentially handed control of Iraq to Shia Muslims who are ideologically closer to Iran then Sunni Muslims in any nation. One of the things the CIA was hoping to achieve from the current situation in Syria was to strengthen Sunni's in Iraq by arming them in order to take on the Shia's in order to correct that error. Also the invasion of Libya has made Iraq very thirsty in terms of oil output so it's probably best for the CIA to step away from that plan too.
And finally the FBI have released their pictures of the suspects in the Boston bombings. Merely clarifying what I've already said the delay was to encourage people to try and hack into the FBI's computer systems to get an advance look at the images that were heavily hinted at yesterday. In hacker circles good guys are known as "Whitehats" while bad guys are known as "Blackhats." Beyond that I'm sure it can wait until tomorrow. An honourable mention should go out to Christine Lagarde for her use of the term "Playing with fire." Personally I thought it was merely a reminder to Rihanna about what she's doing.
Yeah I'm about 99% sure most of those spelling mistakes are my fault.
23:59 on 18/4/13
Shortly after I went to bed a massive explosion ripped through the town of "West" which is in north-east Texas but only 20 miles north of the city of "Waco" which according to Wikipedia claims to be the 'Heart of Texas.' I think I covered all the big bits in my first post of the day. However I should add that as all the chemicals from the West Fertiliser plant slowly seep into the groundwater there is going to be a big discussion about pollution effects of agro-business on the environment. The fact that the USGS took the effort to measure the 'quake is also intended to promote discussion about the practise of 'Fracking.' This is more formally known as "Hydraulic Fracturing" and is used to extract natural gas from deposits of shale rock. It has been linked to all sorts of nasty environmental stuff such as toxic contamination of the ground water supply and micro-earthquakes although it's really time for people to whip out their latest research. The UK says no. I say they're lying.
Also the targeting of a chemical plant next to an old people's home was intended to make it look like the UK and the US have got some big discussion going on about my case go. This is far too large a topic for me to get into now but it includes things like;
- The Paul Lamb right to die case which follows on from the Tony Nicklinson right to die case. The fact that Mr Lamb has had to replace Mr Nicklinson is because Mr Nicklinson had his wish granted by a power far higher then the mere Court of Protection (COP). However the Court of Protection is apparently still insisting that it can't hear cases of dead people. This is a clear reference to my grandmother's COP case and the insistence that the COP doesn't hear the cases of the dead is perfectly legally valid. That's why the next step in my grandmother's case is to take the COP to the Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey). As for the actually Lamb hearing I've not seen the papers but I gather they're trying to argue the defence of necessity. However as anyone whose seen an episode of "Law & Order" knows that should have never been taken up by the Court because the last time I checked we hadn't yet found a way to make the concept of pain a criminal offence. This trial of abstract concepts has obvious reference to the US' infamous War on Terror. Necessity is the defence that environmental protesters always use before being convicted.
- The conviction of Opemipo Jaji for the rape of an 11 year old girl in a north London park. Apart from being some sort of African Jaji has severe mental health problems - normally psychologists write Schizophrenia on these type of case files which comes from the Greek for "That'll do". Therefore I'm sure you can get a very lengthy argument about racial bias in mental health diagnosis out of that somewhere. The reason that we know Jaji has mental health problems is that he was already on probation for sexually assaulting a 12 year old girl which promotes all sorts of discussions about the psychological roots of paedophilia. It also promotes all sorts of discussions about the management of pathological offenders which is a clear reference to Chris Brown (still in New York allegedly).
- The charging of the Williams couple of the murder of the Texas, County prosecutors. The latest twist in this this long running saga began on Saturday (13/4/13) with the arrest of Mr Williams over making threats to kill the prosecutors involved in having him sacked as Justice of the Peace (local Magistrate) and prosecuted for the theft of computer equipment. Then Mrs Williams was arrested for the murders. Mrs Williams then apparently claimed that Mr Williams had committed the murders in what is termed a domestic dispute/joint enterprise depending on the specifics of the local jurisdiction. Eventually Mr Williams has been charged with murder in what feels like a sad admission of failure on the part of the US. In the photographs of the two released to the media they appear to be wearing Ku Klux Klan uniforms which is supposed to trigger a lengthy debate about race and the legal system in the US's which can still be a very heated one in the in some of the southern states especially over issues such as voter ID's. "I'm being persecuted because I'm black" seems to be Chris Brown's one and only defence. The delay in charging Mr Williams was for him to be used as a metaphor for some unspecified 'bad-guy' involved in my case.
- The start of the trial over the murder of Antonio Santiago. If you don't remember Santiago was the infant that was shot and killed in his pram/stroller in Brunswick, Georgia. I can't remember all of this but initially the case was a reference to the child I allegedly fathered after raping a woman. You remember, the one that was pregnant for over two years which prompts all sorts of unpleasant jokes along the lines off; "Well I knew she was a bit fat but I didn't think she was an elephant." It is this part of my life the word "West" is reference to. However I'm not going to explain that further because they last thing we need pikey little telemarketers getting involved. The fact that the accused are both black and the child sounds hispanic who tend to be Catholic this is an attempt to promote discussion about the totally safe subject of procured abortion through the prism of Chris Brown and Rihanna's relationship.
Edited at around 00:15 on 19/4/13 to add;
Anyway what helped put out the fire in West and speed up the discussion about the environmental impacts was the weather which was made up of rain, thunder, lightning and hail. These were remarkably similar to the weather conditions in Croydon today which was easily predictable. The reason I know this is that I was forced to go out in it (well I got my father to drive me because the UK government are still holding on to the delusion that I haven't passed my driving test - they're going to force him to take one again soon) to go to the local supermarket. At this point I'm trying to work out whether it would be easier to fix my scanner, post a dodgy photograph of the receipt on Twitter or type up a list of the 13 items I brought. Suffice to say though it was things like carrots, onions, tomatoes, wine, chocolate, microwave curry commonly known as 'the usual cr'p.'
Much later (while we were watching the BBC1 memory documentary) I got my father to remember that long road trip my father and my sister of multiple eating disorders took through Texas and Oklahoma in I think the summer of 2003. Although my father was hardly in a truthful mood he did confirm had they did indeed stop off in Waco. It was in Oklahoma though that they chanced on a town so small the Mayor, Chief of Police and Fire Chief immediately came out to give the British people an honour guard of one. The Mayor/Police Chief/Fire Chief then proceed to give them a ride in the town's new fire engine. The depressing bit is I genuinely don't think he knew who they were he was just really proud of the new fire engine.
Also today there has been yet another sectarian bombing in Baghdad, Iraq which is just the latest in a very long line of sectarian bombings in Iraq following the 2003 UK/US invasion. What makes this particular bombing (27 dead last I heard) different though is that the device detonated in a coffee shop moments after I made my Tweet about me drinking coffee. Therefore I think this one was carried out by the CIA to promote discussion about the 2003 invasion along with it's knock-on effects in both Iraq and Syria. I'm either too drunk or not drunk enough to get into all that. However the short version is; The US invasion essentially handed control of Iraq to Shia Muslims who are ideologically closer to Iran then Sunni Muslims in any nation. One of the things the CIA was hoping to achieve from the current situation in Syria was to strengthen Sunni's in Iraq by arming them in order to take on the Shia's in order to correct that error. Also the invasion of Libya has made Iraq very thirsty in terms of oil output so it's probably best for the CIA to step away from that plan too.
And finally the FBI have released their pictures of the suspects in the Boston bombings. Merely clarifying what I've already said the delay was to encourage people to try and hack into the FBI's computer systems to get an advance look at the images that were heavily hinted at yesterday. In hacker circles good guys are known as "Whitehats" while bad guys are known as "Blackhats." Beyond that I'm sure it can wait until tomorrow. An honourable mention should go out to Christine Lagarde for her use of the term "Playing with fire." Personally I thought it was merely a reminder to Rihanna about what she's doing.
Yeah I'm about 99% sure most of those spelling mistakes are my fault.
23:59 on 18/4/13
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