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  • I like the song but the whole thing isnt about warfare... I gotta give you a thumbs down for missing the point.

  • zack is a very underrated MC

  • Thanks emmaica2 for the Simple & Perfect idea: post the lyrics with the video.

    If every one do this with the clips musics...

    ZACK´s idealism continue...

    From L. Marcelo Dias

    Brasil, South America

  • they say the troops are the first casualties..... 

  • Good song, good video

    Actually the vid is kinda disturbing in that it shows crimes against humanity; our government fucking sucks!

    I actually ran against waxman who is pelosi's best friend. I agree that they r both war criminals for not doing shit to end it, other than pay lip service to anti war constituency.

    Peace and freedom.

    The main 2 parties are an absolute fraud and a sick joke.

  • anybody who knows history, knows the true brutality of man. Race, religion, the ability of one, to destroy another, almost makes me sick to be a member of the human race. Hatred, jealousy, greed. Who are we really? Who are you really? Do you make a real difference does anybody? Zach is a motha fuckin genius!! He exploits it all for what it is. There is no lie unturned.

  • RATM ARE GONE NOW, BUT THEIR CORE IS STILL PUMPING ALIVE...ZACK CALLS EM LIKE HE SEES EM.

  • ZACK IS A TRUE LEGEND . doenst sit back and let the roubles and evils he see's pass him by . He speaks out and says ''nah nah nah im not having this ''

  • These pictures don't look like they're from the Middle East, they look straight out of Los Angeles!

  • what does he say at 3:10 - 3:20 ? its not in the lyrics

  • start voting from the tops of buildings

  • Now is always a good time to start the great North American uprising. Canadians are on board with our American comrades.

  • Your vote has already been casted; Don't bother, for they will end up voting whoever they want anyway.

  • @FoxFam what do you suppose they do? there just helping out the only way they know how, and maybe if a mass understands there message, maybe something could be done about it. but this is a calling, not a pathetic attempt to end up on tv like all the pop shit. plus its good music :D

  • ur obviously retarded comparing zach to sean penn or most hollywood celebrities.

    Fuck capitalism and fuck democracy

  • Why don't you take your own advice and stfu then?

    These pricks think that because they have a keyboard and an internet connection their opinions matter, or that anyone cares about them.

  • @FoxFam fuck u and suck some politician's cock

  • Anarcho-syndicalism is the only way to go!

  • ZACK Rules. He is the LEGEND.

    PEACE

  • The Socialists will screw you over just the Fascists will.

    When you vote you are choosing between some right-wing asshole who doesn't give two shits about you only working for himself, and a left-wing radical who wants to control every aspect of your life, coercing you to behave.

    Western culture once thrived at a time when it focused on the achievements of each and every individual, rather than the furthering of big business or federal control.

  • i acctualy agree to this one to some extent personaly i dont think the left wing is that far...yet but hey give anyone total power and down the generations u will have problems we should have listened to washington and never started parties now anyone whos trying to get shit done cant and dumbfucks vote for polticial party support over whos better for the job

  • love this fuckin song

  • Zack isfreaking awesome for being so political in his music.

  • i always look forward to zacks songs his music is always legit and true

  • who cares...? Zack has always been a kick ass rocker with style..

  • osama bin ladin and the taliban would LOVE this song.

  • So would your mom.

  • epic burn.... :(

  • Yes, i know they have some really stupid political views, but this song is really good! I love 0:24. That trill on the keyboard makes it sound so awesome!

  • both. we shouldnt put so much consideration on the genre, instead of what it makes us feel.

    and by the way, its considered nu metal. it's like korn and linkin park.

  • i like nu metal

  • What you guys consider this as?

    Rock or Hip-Hop...if you could only chose one.

  • I love Zach and RATM, but they are all the biggest hypocrites in the business. They are all absolutely loaded, Morello has a bunch of sweet Cadillac's and I read that Zach stays in $1000+ a night hotel's when he tours...

    They whine about the richest 10% controlling 90% of the money in a video(i might have the numbers wrong), when they're easily in the richest 1%.

  • Where does it say that one must own NOTHING in order to empathize with the plight of others?

    You really think they are among the richest 1%? If you do, you under estimate the money and influence the elite possess.

  • I actually understand both completely. Everything I said was completely true. You're naive if you think I'm wrong.

    They preach on about rich people having too much power, when they are exactly that. Wah wah wah big corporations, yet they were signed to a huge record label.

  • Doesn't appear so, considering what you wrote. I bet you never read Capital or Wealth of nations.

    True wealth, I'm talking about the top 10% and the power that comes with i.e. political--doesn't equate to owning a few classic cars.

    I'm not defending their lifestyle, I don't even know them, just trying to get you to see that the elite are bigger then them and you and me.

    Why not critic the elite instead of those who empathize with the less fortunate? Maybe the hypocrite is you?

  • How about when they stormed wall street? I guess everyone in there is a political bigshot?

    I am criticizing their hypocrisy, I respect that they wish the best for everyone.

  • What about it? Have you been hiding under a rock the last 12 months? Do you know what folks with a hugh monetary interests in Wall St have done to our economy?

    If you can't see their motivations or understand the symbolism of their doing that--I can't help you.

  • It was actually the idiotic liberal agenda that fucked the economy. Give money to everyone to buy a house when they don't have the income to afford it.

    That was not about symbolism, it was just their desperate need to rebel.

  • Lack of regulation was also a liberal agenda? Bush's eight years of policies had nothing to do with it? Spending billions in a dumb, misguided war, also had no impact on our economy?

    Wall Street has no symbolic importance? Guess you don't watch the news much.

    Don't be so simple.

  • If you actually look into it, the war has had a smaller impact on the USA's debt than you would expect. But I'm not gonna stand here and defend that, cause I'm pretty neutral on it.

  • Your worried about Tom Morello buying a couple of cars but think 12 billion/month wasted in Iraq is not worth mentioning?

  • How can you even compare those two things? C'mon man at least your other arguments had merit

  • I am not comparing them, I am using them illustrate the absence of logic in your previous arguments and criticisms of people like Morello.

    In your second to last post you made the claim that 12 billion a month down the drain "has had a small impact on the nation's debt."

    Yet, again, lets not worry about wasting 12 billion. Lets worry about who drives a Cadillac.

    Your criticism of Morello is misdirected.

  • The difference is, the US government isn't storming the whitehouse and being overly critical of anyone with money.

  • Whatever that means.

  • Yikes a 144 Billion a month.

    And yet for America that sadly seems par for the course.

    What is it so far for the Iraqi war, 500 billion?

  • it wasnt been 500 billion has it...?

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  • Your answer is as simplistic as it is dumb. Name ONE sector of our economy that has been helped by war production.

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  • Interesting how you answer a question with a question--typical indication that your full of shit.

    A number of estimates indicate that money spent invading and occupying Iraq could have provided health care for all, fully-funded k-12 education, job training, public works, etc--is this helpful or is you head still lodged up your ass?

    Your wrong--its not simplistic nor is your claim true. Only thing simple, one-dimensional, and easily confused is that tiny thing that you call a brain.

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  • That Weeds guy was a moron, The members of Rage are rich, but no where near "wealthy" , or among the elite($). their not rockefellers, or Warren Buffetts. Its crazy to even think that. I can almost guarantee though, that All the Members of Rage, have Donated millions to charities.

    I dont know so much about the "Waltons", and their bullshit, screwing over their own workers, now thats fucked up!

    I hate people like Weeds, I bet he has plenty of family out of work and starting the slow decline...

  • Thanks for your comment. Just trying to get the guy to see the big picture. Have a good night.

  • everyone that owns companies producing weapons or mercenaries does well, black water, halluberton etc...

  • I think the other poster was saying that war production was good for econ in general. I think.

  • gun sales....but over all i think the war is over were just going into overtime for no reason

  • they preach about the goverment not rich people this is not about the peoples money this is just influential music you dont like it fucking deal with it and leave ======>

  • I do like it

  • I keep hearing the touting of the failure of communism in places like Russia and China. I'd like to see the success of capitalism in Africa, South America maybe? Even America is going under. It's only a matter of time before socialism is no longer thought of as a boogy-man. Respect to the working people of the world.

  • When has communism ever worked? Difference is capitalism has worked in many countries around the world.

    Fuck socialism. Not gonna have lazy fucking buttplugs make as much money as me when I actually make an effort to better my life. Individual rights all the way.

  • You illustrate a lack of understanding of both the tenets of socialism and capitalism.

  • You say fuck socialsm, and after that you declare your hate aginst ppl who make less money then you, or perhaps no money at all.

    I say, fuck you and fuck your buttplug theory.

    I also say, i love ppl who gives 33% of their income to the less fortunate, state hospitals for free health care, state road supervising for safer roads, state dentist plans for better mouth hygiene, state schools for free education and workers unions for better salary.

  • its just a title,people use things to scare us.

    oh my god we're all fuckin commies now cause we want change.

  • Nice to see that Tom wasn't the only RATM veteran making music after the split. This is some good stuff.

  • they went to Audioslave (except Zach) Tom just recently went to do his own thing

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  • maybe Zach is a closet jew? *dodges tomato*

  • the goverment is going to have alot to answer for when they are standing before god.

  • Zack jams, but he is such a freeekin limp wrist about some shit.

  • agreed ... he's got heart .... but i question his stomach ....

  • On the AM,

    On the AM

    Turn n face them... Hatred n mayhem

  • i don't there should be a government period jus do what has to be done and if everyone doesn't agree with it then it won't get done since direct democracy isn't "efficient enough" as the text books say i guess we'll just have to go with anarchy i am anyway yall can do whatever the fuk u want jus stay off my homestead unless u wanna die by .30 round to da head

  • I hate to even respond to such an ignorant statement. Alas; without government the whole world would collapse under personal evils and chaos. Fuck "efficiency", government is all about stability.

    And if you think we're not stable, when was the last time you just saw people walking around with guns in any country with a decently strong government, shooting whoever they wanted at random without consequence.

  • The Government in America (among other places) may be wrong, evil, or whatever else, but they are abso-fucking-lutely necessary.

  • could'nt agree with you more dude. people's ignorance gets them killed. without government the world would be a shithole like most of Africa is with their government's.

  • "i don't there should be a government period jus do what has to be done and if everyone doesn't agree with it then it won't get done since direct democracy isn't "efficient enough" as the text books say i guess we'll just have to go with anarchy"

    Hey, why don´t you try out how well this works? Move to Somalia.

  • actualy america isnt a direct democracy and for now things are getting better slowly but surely if we didnt have rules and shit i know how it would be so we SHOULDNt try that lol im just saying

  • Well, It´s already been said: For a prime example for a society without the rule of law but lots of guns, take a look at Somalia. Lovely, eh?

  • Actually America wasn't designed to be a democracy... Look it up... AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC... Hence why when we say, " I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Hmmm... Makes ya wonder doesn't it?

  • And this adresses the fact that "no government" is a bad idea... how?

  • kinda the same concept,one leader chosen by the people.

  • It's not a democracy like Athens. It's also not a republic like Rome. It's a democratic republic because there's a democratic vote for those representatives that make up the republic. It's a democratic republic. Or at least it's supposed to be.

  • I will always hold love for all the members of Rage.

  • Can't wait for Rage to come back! I did love this album though and would like 2 c more.

  • rumor has it that rage's ganna hit the studio's any time soon.

  • i heard Audioslave was gonna hit the studio.... but Rage would be better man..!! we dont want no chris cornell with fuckin timbaland shit...aaaah!!!!

  • any sources?

  • not gonna ever record new stuff, they will just tour

  • Unfortunately what democracy said is correct... both Morello and de la Rocha have confirmed new material is unlikely. Thankfully, more tours are planned for 2009.

  • Zach's lyrics continue to blow my mind.

  • WTF is this a Political debate? Listen to the music.

  • Also, democracy tends to fail when there are more than two political parties that gain significant support in an election, leaving a party to become the tie breaker allowing them to gaining political favors and blur the line separating who is in charge. ex. Israel.

    Even so, America is the best.

  • Communism, as Marx intended it to be, is known as "Utopian Communism" (characterized by the complete disintegration of the government). It was successful in tiny agricultural communities across north eastern Europe. IMO bobbybushae339 is absolutely right that communism is highly impractical +1 for that, however I do feel that capitalism with sufficient protection for workers (aka labor unions) is equally good.

  • Communism only looks good on paper. If it worked as it was intended, everyone would be a communist. Turns out, communism can be used as a dictatorship instead of a utopian society. In early America, like Jamestown, the utopian society was part of life. Somewhere down the line, incentives started to come about and the colonies started to blossom. Point being, you go nowhere with communism, just settle where you are.

  • True. I like Rage and stuff, but the communism rhetoric I take with a grain of salt. Dope flow and sick ass beats, but the communist rhetoric is tired and completely third-worldish. Still a dope ass cut.

  • Why is economic equality third-worldish? I'll tell you what's third worldish. A bunch of capitalist, greedy, rich motherfuckers running a country that's supposed to be democratic, but fails miserably because of it's inability to cope with it's own desire for wealth, while allowing people to wallow in their own filth in pathetic poverty because the rich would rather keep the massive amounts of money that they have and don't need than share it. That's fucking third-worldish. To sum it up: U.S.A.

  • Hey moron -

    Why don't you move to China and see how well the communists treat their people there. I suggest you STFU and read a god damn book on the Tiananman Square massacre which occurred in '89 and tell me how that's just. Communism DOESN'T work, PERIOD. Capitalism is flawed, yes, but at least a flunky half breed like Obama can come from a lower- middle-class background and become president. Shut the fuck and learn something you ignorant pig.

  • Yes, because I'm the ignorant pig that needs to read a book *rolls eyes* Maybe you need to learn a little more about the "communism" in China that is more capitalist than anything else. It is not communism at all, no matter how much they pretend it is.

    Glad to see you had to resort to an adhominem attack though. Just shows your overall lack of an argument.

  • wow... just enjoy the song! lmfao

    peace

  • if extremists take it too literally, where in the Qur'an does it say anything that extremists could take literal? it's just war-mongering people under the disguise of religion

  • ...or a war-mongering nation under the blatant task of spreading capitalism and "freedom"

  • speak!

  • No this is not the video he released. This is freaking awesome if I do say so myself, and I never really did listen to RATM that much.

  • You should listen to RATM

  • is this the vidoe he released or did you make this??

  • I wish you people would realize that you're debating politics on a comment page for a song. It's funny. As for the Zach/Zack thing, I just call him ZDR (leaving out the L in la as in de la Rocha). It's a cool acronym. Here's an "ism" you can't usurp: organism. Just thought I'd throw that in there. Regardless of his overly leftist political views, I really like his music being the moderate/almost conservative I am. I want more from these two. Or have RATM come to SoFla. That's cool too.

  • dope shit here

  • nice comparison jippzmcghee, very distracting from the truth. If the religion preaches in it's dogma that those that oppose Islam are the enemy, that pretty much rules out alternative interpretations.

  • Dude You are SO Right!

  • i wish zach would read a history book and realize that #1 socialism doesnt work, and #2 islam is the biggest perpetrator of violence in the middle east, not that its acceptable to blow them apart.

  • socialism doesnt work? nothing really "works". everything has its flaws

  • just because someone does something in the name of a religious belief doesn't mean the religion itself perpetrates violence. that's the equivalent of saying that if i go blow away a school of children in the name of ghandi that ghandi's beliefs are now the perpetrators of violence

  • I wish people like you would realize that 1.) The world has never seen a true form of socialism. All "isms" are usurped by those who want exclusive benefit. 2.) Your #2 is answered by my #1. 3.) Zach is actually spelled Zack.

  • Sweden is currently a socialist nation and are doing very well. However, communism has never successfully been integrated into an economic system.

  • define 'very well'

  • Socialism does work, but the citizens have to be educated and in the right mindset for the system. Americans are not ready for socialism. Islam is not the perpetrator of violence, its the extremists that take it too literally.

  • wrong. Communism can work. Socialism won't. Because the nature of people is to be greedy and get what you can, someone has to take all the power they can get and the uneducated masses follow because they know no better.

    Communism requires that everyone lives for the benefit of everyone. Socialism requires that people do what they need to for the gov't and the gov't distributes what's left as they please.

    But I agree with you on Islam. It's a shame how people can desecrate something like that..

  • i agree that the ideals of communism work, but please answer this because its one of the reasons it cant work in practice: Why should i work hard to become a Doctor/ Rocket Scientist which would in captialism give me a large wage to reward me, when i can just pick up the bins/ work behind a bar and get the same pay?

  • History lesson: when communism was started, it was started by peasants in Russia as an opposition to the oppresive czar. They peasants decided they would overthrow the govt and live all for one and one for all. Your question is the problem. People don't want to work hard for other people without the reward of money. If people cared for the welfare of others you'd work hard regardless of the rewards as long as it benefits your neighbor. Ask Jesus. Read animal farm.

  • But ido care for the welfare of others, just believe that poeple inthe world who work more advanced jobs which require skills that otherpeople just are not able to do should geta greater reward

    And capitalism in its basic form helps everyone, someone has a bright idea and earns money, employs someone too help, the businessgrows etc, as ive said, the ideals of communismare great and we would live in a wonderful world if it was practical its just thatrewarding a bin man equaly asa Doctor isntfair

  • Well that's because we've grown up with capitalism as the norm. We're all so used to it that it's weird to do anything else. Capitialism, as rewarding as it is for the intelligent, the truth is not everyone really can be doctors and lawyers. And we having a growing class gap between the greedy wealthy and the needy poor. Capitalism isn't perfect either. Communism just rewards everyone as people. If everyone doesn't believe it it won't work. So it's impractical but only unfair by our standards.

  • @

    bassbeast65612, just a sidenote ;)

    In first instance the Czar was not overthrown by peasants, The revolution was started by professional revolutionist's(mercenaries) arranged by Lenin. He had more faith in their skills, and predicted that once the revolution was started, the people would follow. As with other things, he was right about that.

    anyway, just a sidenote, Im going to enjoy the music

  • the people didnt follow, and there was no mercenaries

    there was the bolsheviks, an extreme minority

    and the red army, which they gained control of with the aquisition of a certain menshevik by the name of leon trotsky

    if u mean that the poeple would be coerced at gun point, then yes, they did follow

    and the red army was hardly proffessional

    the bolsheviks didnt have the money to hire bodyguards, let alone mercanaries

  • try living without the 'bin man'

    u use him more than u use a doctor

  • im not saying that i devalue the person or job-role of a 'bin-man', its just being a doctor requires much much more skill and intelligence to do than that job and i think because of that we should reward that person greater due to their value to society.

  • I think every job is just as important as the next. It takes different skills to perform each job. When I am on my way to work in the morning and I need a cup of Joe, the person working at the drive-thru has the most important job to me.

  • u obviously failed history :P

    the majority of russian peasants (who were also the majority of the population) supported capitalism, democracy or socialsim

    as did most of russia

    however, the bolsheviks had the red army, and hence they got 'communism' (cough cough) instead

    communism can't work

    human nature antagonises its ideals

    and socialist democracy is what i'm in favour of

    and i agree with u about Islam

  • Okay but wasnt that a different party started "by" peasants.

    It was Lenin and Trotsky with the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks who truly created Communism (as a name and way of life) yet they turned into the Provisional Gov. and Kerenskey.

    Either way i totally support the "Look out for your neighbour" motto. So right on :]

  • The melody is very catchy despite remaining the same static repeated riff throughout the whole song.

    Zack de la Roche has some deep political lyrics though, I think it really has some hidden messages, and the song is pretty killer.

  • rage against the machine is good, but this song sucks

  • EPIC.

  • ffs these are like a shit version of rage!!

  • Fuck you asshole this is fucking awesome, and its better than anything rage put out after their first LP

  • Alright, Rage IS better, Zacky's new band is fucking sick, but will never be better than what they had with Rage.

  • probably because tom mrello is missing.

  • i wouldn't call a kedbroadist and just a drummer a band, but theres only so much you can do with two instruments and they do a fucking deadly job with them(zach and joe)

  • i hope you can realize how retarded that comment is... both the part about being a band and the part about the potential of two instruments.

  • Rage against the machine broke up as a band in 2002.. and no they never got back together, One Day as a lion was Zach De la Rocha's final Ep like 3 years ago.. so they released it

  • they broke up in 2000, they ARE back together and one day as a lion have not been formed 3 years ago, they formed like 1 or 2 years ago, get your fuckin facts right or at least some of them

  • RATM is not back together, theirs a diffrence between touring and getting back together. Get your facts straight.

  • On UG Morello released an official statement stating that they are NOT going to get back together and they are NOT going to record a new album.

    They fucking kicked ass at reading '08 tho :)

  • wait why did ratm split up? sorry im late

  • No one really knows really, Rage said because of changes in their views and oppositions. Some say it might have happend because of what Timmy did when he crashed Limp Bizkit when they won the Best Music Video for the MTV Awards, but RATM denied that it had nothing to do with that.

  • Zack de la Rocha might have dropped the dreads, but he can still blow your mind. It's a shame Audioslave broke up too, those three guys (Tim Bob, Morello, and Wilk) worked really well with two great singers (ZDR and Chris Cornell). I want more of this, sooner rather than later.

  • Hot FIRE!

  • ACTUALLY ITS JUST ZAC FROM RATM

  • this isnt RATM just to let you know

  • wtf did these guys quit?

  • as in, back after the rage against the machine split like 9 years ago

  • they broke in 2002 and now there bakc toghter

  • they just toured together, not making music together again though

  • thank god he's back!! he's pure talent even solo!!!

  • they broke the mold when they made zack dela rocha

  • Buggy's the man! Buggy's the man!

    All the crowds acclaim.

    With a junkie like me,

    What would God want?

    Bring us a peace spritzer! And Buggy drops his drawers. Laughter ensues.

    Bread, vinegar and a sour face,

    Babbling brooks overflow,

    Awe and terror will not cease.

    Buggy's man will not let the end of days find rest.

  • buenasasazo!!!

  • Fist in the air, slay the hypocrists.. take the power back from the HAVE NOTS....

  • zach de la rocha is the man

  • I think the lyrics have improved since rage

  • they have i agree

    no effence but i dont think hell ever live up to rage

  • yeah the lyrics and the flow man, if this band develops and adds more things to suprise us this group could really run out of rages shadow

  • its two people...thats all.

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    Coming real from the mighty mighty city of Chicago.

  • great song

  • it ain't rage, but its DAMN sweet, thats for sure.

  • this isn't what im used to so i will whine like a retard because i can't accept new things until everyone else agrees they are cool or popular

  • U sad cunt

  • hey brotha dont forget timmy C. that man has some badASS bass licks

  • hell yeah, check bullet in the head

  • haha man, that is the exact song i was thinking of when i wrote that.

  • What are you people on? This is de la rocha, Not RATM its never gonna sound the same. WIthout morello.

  • =(

    =(

  • this is the band One Day as a Lion. it is the lead singer of Rage and the the early drummer from The Mars Volta.

  • sick!

  • some1 told me to look it up form comment on RATM "killing in the nam eof and i'm glad he told me :D

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