This morning the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a
resolution on Syria's chemical weapons. I will explain this more fully
later but the relevant detail here is that the Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) which is charged with
implementing this resolution has stated quite clearly that it will not
entertain discussions about setting a time table until November 15th
2013 - the date of the final concert of Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour in
New Orleans, US. Due to the hostile political agenda of
Rihanna's tour this is no coincidence and very much the world turning
round to the US and telling it that they will not do this until the US
stops doing that. The fact that the US' itself was forced to vote in
favour of this resolution is testament to how much the US' diplomatic
standing has collapsed in the wake of its Rihanna operation.
Under this sort of pressure you would have excused Rihanna for screwing up her show tonight in Brisbane, Australia.
There was no need to worry though because Rihanna was more then up to
the challenge arriving on stage just some 20-25 minutes late which for
Rihanna counts as on time. Rihanna went on to preform the standard
set-list with the standard costume changes. I will obviously have to
wait for the videos to appear before commenting on the quality of
Rihanna's performance myself but the early reviews are talking of a flat
rather then a poor performance. However that is really an unavoidable
consequence of a set-list that is dependent on the very weak
Unapologetic album that probably should have been put out to pasture a
long time ago.
What is unfortunate about the concert is that it marked a tightening of
Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) information
blackout. Obviously the management have already made clear that they are
going to adamantly stick to their position of refusing to provide
necessary information in a timely fashion. However on this occasion - on
my account at least - Tweets about the concert were either blocked
outright or significantly time-delayed and there were lots of fake
Tweets circulating containing false information. This is a worry because
it appears that the US' response to the censure it has received from
the international community is to provocatively pick a fight.
Considering the world of hurt the US has just signed up to this strikes
me as an incredibly bad move and explains why I'm now starting to
experience the sort of headaches I used to get when working with the
clinically insane.
After all there are only so many conversations about the sensors the
government have hidden in lampposts in order to test the effectiveness
of the cancer causing drugs they've put into the water supply before it
really starts to grate.
(Originally Posted) 14:45 on 28/9/13 (UK date).
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