In the past few hours Rihanna has performed her concert in Adelaide, Australia. Unfortunately the amount of information that was available through unofficial channels was not as high as it was for the Perth
concert. This really serves to underline that it is unfair to rely on
these official channels (i.e concert goers) especially when you consider
the ages of some of the people involved.
However I do know that Rihanna performed the standard set-list with the
standard costumes changes although I will need to wait for the videos to
comment on the quality of Rihanna performance. The big talking point
though is that Rihanna took to the stage some 1 hour and 20 minutes
behind schedule. This is significantly more than the level of lateness
that is to be expected and getting close to the Boston debacle
when Rihanna appeared on stage almost three hours late. Rihanna's
lateness appears to be the result of the curious decision by Rihanna's
CIA handler/Live Nation (the management) to fly Rihanna from Perth to
Adelaide just before the concert. This meant that not only was Rihanna
flying when she should have been sleeping but she also had to adjust to
the slight (90min) time difference between Perth and Adelaide. Therefore
management's attempts to pique everyone's interest as to whether
Rihanna's Australian hosts are engaging in a low level harassment
campaign against her seem rather irrelevant because Rihanna's management
are clearly engaging in a harassment campaign themselves.
With this sort of hostile conduct from the management it should come as
no surprise that they are still trying to enforce their information
blackout. Sadly that was something that was obvious from yesterday when
the US Department of Transportation announced that it was investigating
Japan's Asiana airline over its response to the crash of a Boeing 777 at
San Francisco airport back in July 2013. The allegation is that Asiana
failed to provide a contact telephone number for friends and relatives
of passengers within the required 1 hour. Apparently Asiana did provide a
telephone number after 3 hours but this was for an automated ticket
booking service. They then provided an appropriate contact number a few
hours later but that number was changed the following day. This sounds
remarkably similar to my attempts to get in more direct contact with
Rihanna that began a year ago today. Therefore the US is clearly
investigating Asiana to pressure Japan into a discussion about why I'm
not currently in more direct contact with Rihanna at this point. I
happen to think that this is exactly the conversation the Japanese were
trying to have with the US when Asiana failed to provide the contact
telephone number at the time making this current situation even more
inexplicable.
If the objective of the current situation is to make everyone deeply
annoyed at the US is certainly seems to be working. Yesterday the Polish
national airline LOT reported that two of it's Boeing 787 Dreamliner's
had to be grounded because they were missing fuel filters and gave
Boeing until the end of 2013 to pay compensation relating to faults with
the aircraft or face legal action. This is all great news for Boeing's
European rival Airbus who yesterday confirmed USD15bn worth of deals
with airlines in China and Vietnam which of course are in South-East
Asia - the area that this third leg of Rihanna's tour has been
especially targeting.
With such clear evidence mounting that the management's Rihanna plan is
having a devastating impact on the US' reputation and interests across
the globe the obvious question is why are they still so confident
they're being successful? To find the answer to that you need to look
towards the America's Cup sailing race. In the first eight races the
US' Team Oracle were doing appallingly being beaten every single time by
New Zealand. Then last Tuesday (17/9/13) just as Rihanna was making her
ill-advised trip to Thailand the New Zealand team suddenly fell to
pieces and the US' Team Oracle won 9 races in a row to win the
competition. This has gone down as one of the most amazing turn-arounds
in sporting history and feels very much like a very active member of the
UK Commonwealth Realm egging Rihanna's management on by giving them
confidence that their Rihanna plan is being a success. It is a sad flaw
of the human condition that if someone wants to believe they are being a
success they will ignore all the evidence to the contrary provided they
are given the false confidence to do so.
(Originally Posted) 17:25 on 26/9/13 (UK date).
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