Much to everyones annoyance despite the end of the Diamonds World Tour
Rihanna remains still very much alive. As far as anyone can tell she is
currently celebrating this fact whilst holed up in a hotel in New York
City, US. Considering that Rihanna is currently renting an apartment
just around the corner from this hotel this strikes me as an extremely
poor decision.
The poverty of the situation is being particularly added to by the fact
that Rihanna is staying in this hotel alongside the British model Cara
Delevinge. Although for some reason the pair genuinely appear to be
friends Ms Delevinge has a well established reputation as a British
informant and actually wore the England soccer/Crystal Palace Football
Club style outfit at the recent Victoria's Secret show. Therefore the
reason why Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) have
forced to pair together at this time is to give the impression that the
UK is trying to gather information about an operation that is continues
to fully endorse. This may have been true even as recently as September
with the UK trying to us Ms Delevinge as a way to get Rihanna hooked on
cocaine in an attempt to promote discussion about drug smuggling.
However since then even the UK has distanced itself from an operation
that now only the US and the US alone thinks should continue.
I will though continue to follow Ms Delevinge on Twitter in an effort to
try and work out what on earth the attraction is. After all Cara
Delevinge and Melissa Forde together is a lesbian porn film I think we'd
all pay to see.
One outcome of Rihanna's stay in New York so far has been that she's
changed her hairstyle. Gone are the long extensions and the undercut
being replaced by a more natural looking black bob. This seems to be a
direct nod to the hairstyle of Nelson Mandela's granddaughter Zoleka who
has been doing the rounds recently talking about her battle with
cancer. Obviously the element of this story that attracts Rihanna is
that if she continues to dye, relax and add to her hair it will fall out
at the roots much as Zoleka Mandela's did during her chemotherapy.
However being a the star of a Kim Kardashian style reality show Zoleka
Mandela also raises the issues of her grandfather Nelson's struggle
against apartheid in South Africa and her grandmother Winnie's somewhat
less noble role in that struggle whilst making the point that in a
relatively poor nation where roughly 1 in 5 people are HIV positive
people still face more traditionally western health care problems such
as cancer.
Basically one of the main outcomes people are hoping for from the
COP19/CMP9 is to flesh the Durban Platform which was laid out at the
COP17/CMP7 in Durban, South Africa to provide a replacement for the
Kyoto framework which is set to expire in 2015. So win or lose South
African has quite a lot of its reputation staked on this.
On the subject of weather/climate the US is currently trying to make an
awful lot of a series of late season tornadoes that have swept across
parts of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. Despite being
home to Chicago and therefore US President Obama's adopted home state
Illinois also contains lots of place names that sound a lot like other
place names. For example one of the most talked about areas is the town
of Washington that shares its name with Washington D.C where the US
federal government is based. So I actually think this storm has been the
environment trying to show the US what it has been doing to everybody
else for the past year.
After all along with Typhoon Haiyan the US storm has posed lots of
relevant questions about how urban design adapts to the threat posed by
environmental hazards. Particularly why people who live in an area prone
to tornadoes still insist on building their houses out of wood rather
then stone? After all the effort to repair the damage will place extra
pressure on the world's forests (carbon sinks if you prefer) that the
REDD+ program is trying to protect.
(Originally Posted) 15:50 on 18/11/13.
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