M.I.A. Reminds Snide Critics She Was Right About NSA Spying in 2010

Reviewers who blasted “The Message” as a paranoid rant are starting to look pretty naive these days
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Following revelations that the NSA is spying on our phone calls, texts, Google history, Facebook profiles and who knows what else, M.I.A. is taking some time to remind the world she knew it all along.

Back in 2010, her Maya album opener “The Message” linked our hyper-connected online lives to government oversight with the following lyrics: “Your headphones connected to your iPhone / Your iPhone’s connected to the Internet / The Internet’s connected to the Google / The Google’s connected to the Government.”

Numerous critics singled out “The Message” in album reviews, heaping condescending, snide remarks onto the track. Dismissing her claim, smug reviewers called her “paranoid,” “juvenile” and “logically shoddy,” implying she was either a conspiracy kook or just plain stupid (they must have forgotten her “Some people think we’re stupid but we’re not” declaration on Kala).

And although nobody likes a gloater, she’s earned the right rub this in some faces now that the rest of the world has caught up. So M.I.A. took to Tumblr and posted excerpts from particularly nasty attacks of Maya. Ironically, the same writers that blasted “The Message” as naive and out of touch in 2010 now seem exactly that themselves in light of 2013’s NSA surveillance scandal.

Although she doesn’t cite the sources for these quotes, we did a little Googlin’ and uncovered the publications. Here are the most egregious examples of critics who blasted her back in 2010 and now have to eat their own words. Because the Internet, and the government monitoring it, never forgets.

“[‘The Message’ is about as] effective as someone in a dorm room ranting about the CIA inventing AIDS. It’s not the best idea to kick off your politically charged album with a song that demolishes the possibility of addressing a serious issue about privacy with any degree of depth or nuance.” – Pitchfork

“‘The Message’… [is] a nursery rhyme about Big Brother’s digital omnipotence.” – Washington Post

“The combination of would-be narcissism and paranoia…. is dismayingly reminiscent of late-period Public Enemy.” – Uncut

“‘The Message’ is a song that seems to be her paranoid, equally awful version of the The Secret. M.I.A. needs conflict to exist, even if this means living in a ‘Google connects to the government’ delusion.” – Washington Square News (NYU student newspaper)

“Album opener ‘The Message’ is a horribly paranoid rant of information politics and media conspiracy lyrics rambled over a distorted and staccato beat. ‘iPod is connected to the Google is connected to the government.’ Yes, and if you watch The Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side of the Moon, they synch up. Woooaaaah.” – Urb

In conclusion, we should probably pay attention to what M.I.A. is saying on the long-delayed Matangi when/if it finally drops. Listen to “The Message” below.

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M.I.A. Marries Into the Illuminati

M.I.A. Illuminati Bronfman

Female rapper MIA has given birth to boyfriend Benjamin Bronfman’s son. The Warner Music Group chairman and CEO is Edgar Bronfman, Jr. The Bronfmans are a prominent Illuminati family. Here is an article that tells their story:

Big-Time Gangsters Set up McCain’s Family Fortune

The Buchanan-hating Bronfman family are the “godfathers” behind the organized crime empire in Arizona that spawned the political career of “reformer” John McCain.

By Michael Collins Piper

In 1976 a crusading Phoenix reporter, Don Bolles, was murdered by a car-bomb after writing a series of stories exposing the organized crime connections of well-known figures in Arizona, including one Jim Hensley.

Five years later “Honest John” McCain arrived in Arizona as the new husband of Hensley’s daughter, Cindy. “From the moment McCain landed in Phoenix,” according to Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity, “the Hensleys were key sponsors of his political career.”

The fact is, the people ultimately behind the Hensley fortune are even more interesting and controversial

While it is well-known McCain’s father-in-law is owner of the biggest Anheuser-Busch beer distributor in Arizona—one of the largest beer distributors in the nation—the media has had nothing to say about the origins of the Hensley fortune that financed McCain’s rise to power.

The Hensley fortune, in fact, is a regional offshoot of the big time bootlegging and rackets empire of the Bronfman dynasty of Canada, founded by Sam Bronfman, an early partner of Meyer Lansky, longtime “chairman of the board” of the international crime syndicate. (The Bronfmans cover all bases. Sam’s son, Edgar, today—at least publicly—supports George W. Bush.)

McCain’s father-in-law got his start as a top henchman of one Kemper Marley who, for some forty years until his death in 1990 at age 84, was the undisputed behind-the-scenes political boss of Arizona. But Marley was much more: he was also the protege of Lansky’s longtime lieutenant, Phoenix gambler Gus Greenbaum.

In 1941 Greenbaum had set up the Transamerica Publishing and News Ser vice, which operated a national wire service for bookmakers. In 1946 Green baum turned over the day-to-day operations to Marley while Greenbaum focused on building up Lansky-run casinos in Las Vegas, commuting there from his home in Phoe nix. Greenbaum, in fact, was so integral to the Lansky empire that he was the one who took command of Lansky’s Las Vegas interests in 1947 after Lansky ordered the execution of his own longtime friend, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, for skimming profits from the new Flamingo Casino.

Greenbaum and his wife were murdered in a mob “hit” in 1948, their throats cut. The murder set off a series of gangland wars in Phoenix, but Marley survived and prospered

During this time Marley was building up a liquor distribution monopoly in Arizona. The truth is that it was the Bronfman family that set Marley up in business. However, in 1948, some 52 of Marley’s employees (including Jim Hensley) went to jail on federal liquor violations—but not Marley.

The story in Arizona is that Hensley took the fall for Marley. Upon Hensley’s release from prison, Marley paid Hensley back by setting him up in the beer business. That company today, said to be worth $200 million, financed McCain’s career. And without Marley’s political support McCain could have never even gotten elected dogcatcher.

But there’s more. McCain’s father-in-law had also dabbled in the dog racing business and he expanded his family fortune further by selling his dog racing track to an individual connected to the the Buffalo-based Jacobs family.

The Jacobs were the leading distributors for Bronfman liquor into the United States during Prohibition into the hands of local gangs that were part of the Lansky syndicate. Expanding over the years, the family’s enterprises were once described as being “probably the biggest quasi-legitimate cover for organized crime’s money-laundering in the United States.”

While John McCain himself can not be held personally responsible for the sins of his father-in-law, the fact is that this “reformer” owes his political and financial fortunes to the good graces of the biggest names in organized crime.

source: The Spotlight
http://www.spotlight.org/Pat/gangsters/gangsters.html

Charles Luciano was nicknamed Charile Lucifer, “the devil.” He was the most feared and hated of the underworld bosses. Luciano liked Toddy both because he was attracted to her and she had a restaurant he wanted to use for one of his bases of operations on the third floor for gambling. Luciano was one of the three major distributors for the Bronfman’s narcotics. The Bronfmans are outwardly Jewish and covertly satanists. Remember they were mentioned in the previous Collins article being friends of actor Joan Collins.

Rothstein and Meyer Lansky were the other two Bronfman distributors. (Dope. Inc., p. 431) Luciano supplied Hot Toddy with her drugs. At the time of her murder, her movie boss had planned to raise her salary to $3,500 a week. Luciano worked for the U.S. government during W.W. II, and in 1946 was deported to Sicily. During W.W.II Luciano work for US. Intelligence–SOE and OSS. (Where else in this newsletter have I mentioned the corruption in the Intelligence Agencies?) After being “deported” to Sicily, Luciano continued to work for US. Intelligence and Permindex (Dope. Inc., p. 483)-which is the elite’s assassination bureau which later moved the center of its headquarters to Paradise Island in the Grand Bahamas. (Dope. Inc., p.493) (It seems to me that Luciano had connections to Onassis.)

I noticed that there was a man named Collins who was involved with the Illuminati’s movements to take over the Australian economy. He was an executive of H.W. Smith, one of those companies that interlock with the CIA, mob, and Illuminati. As you may realize, I offer these types of clues because I can’t presume on the future and hope that others will asist in putting together the pieces of how widespread the satanic Collins family is.

Joan Collins spent time with Edgar Bronfman. The Bronfman family are the Jewish Illuminati family that runs Canada. (p. 281-282)

Source: Excerpts from: Dope, Inc.
http://www.light1998.com/The_satanic_bloodline/Collins_bloodline.htm

Do YOU want the Bronfmans
determining what you may
read? or hear? or say? or write? or publish?

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M.I.A. on Facebook, Google and the Government

M.I.A.

“Anybody who is called the government is right. And anybody who isn’t called the government is not right,” she said. “And you know, all governments are connected to Google, and all governments can shift their search engines so only what they want you to see comes up… I want all kids to be aware of this digital circumstance…

“Everyone on the internet is like, ‘Oh my God, come and join Facebook!’ They’re all so optimistic… and really, everyone is fracking you up behind the screens. And I don’t like that. It makes it difficult for me to interact with my fans knowing that. Google and Facebook were developed by the CIA, and when you’re on there, you have to know that.”

— M.I.A.

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