Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 1, Day 5.

Yesterday Rihanna performed in San Diego, California. As the final in a series of concerts in what is effectively Rihanna's home state this concert really marked the re-start of the tour proper with Rihanna and her tour party taking to the road again in the tour caravan. The big news is that despite of the rumours surrounding the Los Angeles concert Rihanna has indeed been re-infected with a nasty case of Chris Brown. The couple were photographed out and about in Los Angeles on Wednesday (10/4/13) and pictures Rihanna has posted on Twitter/Instagram suggest that Brown has joined the tour party at least until tonight's concert in Las Vegas. Personally I believe that claim to be genuine.

The CIA handlers have suggested this and Rihanna has agreed to it in order to provoke a reaction from the international community about whether Brown will be tolerated at any of the European, Australasian, African legs of Rihanna's tour. I've not seen any evidence of any reaction to this provocation which to me seems to suggest that international community is rallying behind Malawian President Joyce Banda's position that Brown can certainly try his luck.

The much more sinister reason of Brown's inclusion in the tour party is to massively increase the tension amongst Rihanna's core social group within the high pressure environment of the tour bus. Following last weekends row between Rihanna and Melissa Forde it is quite clear that Forde is now deeply isolated from Rihanna and the other less bright members of the core group. Nowhere was this seen more clearly than in yesterday's celebration of Forde's 27th birthday. This involved Rihanna and the rest of the group waking Forde up and sharing embarrassing photographs of her having just woken up on the the Internet. The timing of this prank coincided perfectly with my dinner with my mothers, brother and his new girlfriend and was intended to be a group shaming of Forde over her particular interest in the issues homosexual and government engineered romantic relationships that discussion about my family and I often provokes.

The inclusion of Brown within that core group is intended to exacerbate and increase those divisions to the point either Forde or Brown are kicked off the tour. As it's long been known that one of the key ways the handlers intend to maintain Rihanna and Chris Brown's relationship is through isolating Rihanna from anyone (such as Forde) who questions her relationship with Brown this is intended to create tension about whether or not that objective has been achieved. Personally I'm not that tense because as while Chris Brown continues to be protected we all know how this story ends so the exact steps taken to that conclusion aren't really that interesting.

In order to really provoke the discussion about whether Rihanna and Chris Brown's relationship is genuine or something that has simply been engineered in order to achieve a political objective wider member of Rihanna's social group Kim Kardashian has been having some trouble with her divorce. Rather than being a man and accepting a no fault divorce over their 72-day 2011 marriage Kris Humphries is instead pushing for an annulment on the grounds of fraud. The fraud being that elements of the couple's courtship was faked by the production company as part of the show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." This promotes obvious discussions about the extent to which romantic relationships can be faked.

While this argument might fascinate people who watch shows like "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" being made of sterner stuff international diplomats and spies will already know the answer to that question. They are though likely to be quite amused by Chris Brown and Rihanna's apparent belief that they are some sort of Romeo and Juliet characters having a doomed love affair that is opposed by all around them. Given the level of state involvement in keeping Rihanna and Chris Brown together the only real comparison I can draw between them and Shakespeare's character's is that they both die tragically. The only comparison I can draw between Rihanna and Chris Brown's relationship and the relationship between James Dean and Marilyn Monroe is that they're both utterly fictitious.

Further pushing the issue of the level of state involvement in Rihanna and Chris Brown's relationship Rihanna's mentor Jay-Z has released a song about his and his wife Beyonce's recent controversial trip to Cuba. In it Jay-Z expresses a fondness for US President Obama and claims that he personally sanctioned the trip to Cuba. Obviously at first glance this makes it appear that Jay-Z and Obama are close friends and agree on a range of issues such as the endorsement of Rihanna and Chris Brown's relationship and the Cuba trip. However the more politically astute will realise that being held personally responsible for things like the Cuba trip and the continued protection of Chris Brown is hugely politically damaging to President Obama.

This creates speculation that maybe Jay-Z actually doesn't like Obama and his policies and was deliberately acting to sabotage his 2012 re-election bid. This obviously feeds into the main theme of the US leg of Rihanna's tour which is a sort of post-mortem of the role that Rihanna, Chris Brown and I played in the 2012 Presidential election. The song is also intended to promote confused discussion about whether Jay-Z has specifically fallen out with Obama because he is continuing to protect Chris Brown or because he is pushing for the protection of Chris Brown to be lifted. Although I doubt either of these are particularly true if you believe the former it portrays Obama in an even worse light but if you choose to believe the latter it suggests that Jay-Z wants Rihanna neatly contained within a long-term romantic relationship in order to stop his wife Beyonce getting jealous of his relationship with Rihanna.

That latter interpretation will obviously seed the ground for the wave of gossip and rumour about Jay-Z, Beyonce and Rihanna's relationship which expected to intensify ahead of Rihanna's concerts in Brooklyn in early May. While I think the vast majority of those rumours will be nonsense I can't help but feel there is a grain of truth in this story. After all I've often found those who seek to control the lives of others often do so because they can't control aspects of their own lives. 

Although it's slightly off-topic and feels like stating the obvious I should point out that by encouraging the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) into making ever more aggressive threats the US has been hoping to force it into having to test-fire one or more missiles in order to back up it's claims. The US then intends to use this aggression from the DPRK to encourage it's south-east Asian neighbours to side with the US against China. This trick of creating a threat and then offering the protection to counter that threat is one of the oldest in the diplomatic playbook. In the US and the UK it's more commonly known as the criminal activity of protection racketeering.

I should also point out that DPRK President Kim Jung-Un is roughly the same age as me and is married to a DPRK pop-star who is roughly the same age as Rihanna. Therefore all this speculation about my relationship with my Twitter wife Rihanna is intended to put intense personal pressure on him in order to make him behave more aggressively.

Obviously I may edit this to include some actual discussion of Rihanna's concert last night if that information becomes available. However I seriously doubt it.

(Originally Posted) 20:05 on 12/4/13.