Today that British metaphor for Rihanna Paris Brown has resigned from
her post as Kent's Independent Youth Police and Crime Commissioner and
is being investigated by the police over comments she made on Twitter.
This is quite an about turn from Paris Brown's original purpose of
Britain being seen to defend Rihanna. This is clearly a response to the
US' efforts to falsely convince us all that Rihanna and Chris Brown have
split up. These efforts included postings Rihanna herself made on
Twitter/Instagram.
Now this could be the UK reacting aggressively because they were
genuinely fooled and confused by the break up rumours. After all they
did deploy Cara Delevinge in an effort to gather more information.
However I think it is much more likely the UK faking confusion in an
effort to convince the US that the break up rumours have been successful
in order to give them the confidence to continue. After all if the US
does continue it's the UK that's likely to receive the pay-off on June
10th (10/6/13) when Chris Brown makes his next Court appearance while
Rihanna is playing a concert in Cardiff, UK. Besides as I've said before
nothing will give the US' rivals more pleasure then watching them
trying to plough ahead with a blown and failed operation.
An example of this is the most recent controversy surrounding Justin
Beiber's upcoming concert in Norway on April 17th (17/4/13). In
preparation for that concert organisers informed a 14 year wheelchair
bound girl that because of her disability she would be forced to watch
the concert from the disabled section at the back of the arena despite
having paid the equivalent of USD300 for a front row ticket. Apart from
the obvious the problem is that girl's father is Geir Lippestad the
highly respected attorney who defended mass murderer Anders Behring
Breivik. Needless to say the concert organisers have backed down.
I've yet to have a decent look at Rihanna's performance in Los Angeles
last night because nobody's reported any major issues and I suspect I'm
going to have to spend a lot of time Googling the names of 'celebrity'
guests. However I've noticed that the concert was immediately proceeded
by the NCAA college basketball championship game in which Louisville
beat Michigan 82-76. This outcome was never in doubt from the moment
Louisville's Kevin Ware suffered a horrific leg break during one of the
earlier rounds. However it does give me an opportunity to talk about the
Rutgers scandal.
If you've not been following this involved the coach of Rutgers college
basketball team Mike Rice being fired after footage emerged showing him
shouting abuse at and hitting players. This obviously prompted lots of
discussion about Rice's behaviour and why more senior managers at the
college didn't fire Rice sooner. Mike Rice was obviously being used as a
metaphor for US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Susan Rice.
Although attempts to create an illusion of an internal power-struggle
has been a defining feature of the Chris Brown/Rihanna operation I think
that the Rutgers story was a genuine attempt by Team Breezy to make
life difficult for Susan Rice. That's because while I'm a significant
part of the reason why she isn't the US Secretary of State Susan Rice
hasn't been above doing me the occasional favour especially when it
involves the Rihanna operation. For example she didn't need to tell me
about the unsuccessful UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting to discuss
report S/2013/189 on Mali.
The reason for Susan Rice's assistance and no doubt behind the scenes
criticism is quite clear. As she is on the front line of US diplomatic
efforts she is getting daily reminders that the answer the US gives to
the question; "Is Chris Brown going to prison?" is going to be the same
answer the US is going to get to any diplomatic request it makes no
matter how reasonable.
(Originally Posted) 16:50 on 9/4/13.
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