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.
(Originally Posted) 16:50 on 22/4/13.
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