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  • great song....morello is way better than jack white will ever be...and he is definitely not in the 1%...his entire net worth is probably a few million at best...which is basically an accounting error at goldman sachs or chase....wall street was a corrupt shithole when it started in the 1700's and its just gotten worse ever since..

  • how are you gonna com pair terrorist to money grubbing wall street pricks yeah they both suck but terrorist deserve to be in git mo. just my though

  • Tom Morello gives Ron Paul a thumbs up! Check it out watch?v=yWa1l9RFY8Y

  • Ron Paul has the courage to end the Wars, the bailouts, and the corporatism.

    Restore liberty, end the fed, elect Ron Paul President 2012.

  • The government is the problem here. As it always is. It becomes bigger, more greedy and more aggressive. The government can't even defend our borders from undocumented aliens, they have destroyed our educational system, they have ran every major program into the red, economically. It is the government who controls interest rates which adversely effects speculative activity on Wall Street. They control the currency, and the rate at which it is created, thus devalued.

  • It's because regardless of how they criticize Obama, they are predominately a pro- Obama crowd. They won't protest Washington with him in power. Instead they want to throw bricks at the earnings of successful citizens who pay hundreds of thousands, often millions in taxation each year. I mean the US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, and the top 1% pays close to 50% of all tax revenue.

    OWS is misguided.

  • People don't understand that bailing out the banks is the opposite of Capitalism, that is Socialism. Under true Capitalism, the banks would have failed. Government intervention is Socialism, and what I still can't understand, is why the OWS demands and complaints are not primarily directed towards DC? The real framers of our current economic woes

  • i don't know why but to me he kinda looks like forrest gump lol

  • Nice video, absolutely great cause, but whats with the creepy girl with the guitar in the background, she seems out of place.

  • No he's not

  • Love Tom Morello as a musician but he his misguided on economics.

  • This is why i love tom morello

  • It´s a pity, to read some messages with resentment over tom morello... It´s ovious that this guy have a lot´s of money... But hen stay in his house in some parties, instead of that he choose to go there, and give something... Obviously he could be more committed with the cause and camp there... But, im not anyone to say what he should do... he cant wear a cape and fight with the super villains bankers...

  • He's more stupid than I thought. Think he would trade jobs with me? I want to stand around and play music for lazy creeps instead of earn a paycheck.

  • Yea Tom Morello, go ahead and play your guitar, fight for world peace and equality! Or go back to your multi-million dollar mansion and feel good about yourself, hypocrite.

  • @tzb420 People are allowed to have money you know...

  • @xCorby94 Yes, but there's no reason for Tom Morello, who is in the so called "1 percent" to say how bad it is for these politicians to have so much money.

  • @tzb420 Well, there is. Tom has earned his money from people giving it to him, out of their own free will, in return for entertainment. The bankers and all the others being protested against made theirs unfairly through clearly fraudulent methods. Just because someone is rich or is in the so-called '1%' doesn't mean they're automatically bad.

  • @xCorby94 I will agree with you on some bankers having made money through fraud and other means. The fact that these protesters also say that all rich people are mad is what makes this whole thing awful. A lot of wealthy people make there money through hard work, and do so the right way. They shouldn't be berated for being wealthy, either by occupiers or entertainers, or anyone for that matter.

  • @tzb420 you probably say 'fuck the police' whenever a video of police brutality is shown

  • @deathlordoo What are you getting at? That comment has no relation to what I said whatsoever.

  • @tzb420 We didn't bail out people like Tom Morello with billions in our tax money like we did for crimminal hedge fund managers on Wall St you idiot and then watch them give each other millions MORE in bonues after they robbed all of us or were aother one of the schmucks who just forgot about 2008 and voted the republicans back in in 2010 so they could campaign on "job killing BIG GOVERNMENT regulations" so these thieves can do it all over AGAIN!!

  • sorry mic check!

    

  • tom sounds just like oboma

  • Aw, shut the fuck up TTTOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

    Go home and count your money from your carefully crafted and forged recording and touring contracts. I'm certain that you and your band do not record and perform for free.

    The last time I checked, your recordings and concert tickets were not free.

    Step up to the plate and let's see you whip out your check book and start writing checks to the creeps standing around you.

    So Tom! Socialism is for the masses and NOT for the Socialist.

  • I hear an echo somewhere.

    Driving me nuts!

  • I am asking - Where the hell is The System Of A Down now?

  • @ego78th on tour in europe

  • tom morrelo is part of the 1%, useful idiots on parade, the 99% support the police

  • damnit as soon as i saw tom morello i spine chilled

  • Preach it Tom!

  • That was beautiful...perfect for a peaceful protest. However...should the time come when we would have to fight for our rights, then WAKE UP will be the riot song needed to fuel our untempered rage. lol

  • Morello is the man!!!

  • WAKE UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

  • what are these comments, should we not be all for the same thing and not discuss about how good morello is, the point is:

    Famous people joining in.

    THE REVOLUTION IS COMING!

  • The Federal Reserve is the tool. Learn about the Fed. When you find out what'g going on, you be shouting "End the Fed!"

  • Johhny cash could have made this song

  • aww yeah. 

  • I support the movement, but this alarms me, Dragging them off to Gitmo without a trial or anything? This is the kind of stuff that the right will try to focus on. Tom should have known better.

  • @eldiablov2 a trial? reli the white collared coporation members will buy themselves out of a jail senstence

  • @Bapewatch01 everybody has the right to a fair trial

  • @eldiablov2 besides if we drag them to jail it isn't very likely they will be accepted. whats more, the prison system is already over crowded

  • lol he kinda sounds like obama!

  • @DarkDaysAhead2012 This movement is about peace and fairness. It's about being a real American. If that's the new world order, the world is getting a much needed face lift.

  • @vinceraney the reason this isn't the best is because he doesn't have a microphone so he is trying to say the words as loud as he can. The album version is very soft.

  • Human garbage

  • People are hating too much on his singing. In recent interviews he has even stated that singing is relatively new to him and he has barely began doing so only within the past year. He still has great potential to mature his singing. Even at the end of the day he has a spot in the greatest guitar players of all time.

  • @mrblueangeldood he is in the top 30 guitarists of all time in rolling stone magazine.

  • @BobDawg173 Show's you what Rolling Stone knows - jack shit. Tom Morello is a blowhard - a freakin' lefty child of privilege. This OWS bullshit is a wet dream for this punk.

  • @doelstu Fuck you. Have you seen the video promenade? HE PLAYS THE FUCKING GUITAR WITH HIS FACE! He re-invented the guitar. Stop fail trolling and just go die.

  • @BobDawg173 Morello ain't shit. You hear me? He needs to sweep the street with his face cause he's a second rate player at best. He couldn't roadie for Jack White. Morello is a typical hypocritical lefty windbag.

    Re-invented guitar? Dude please. He sucks, save Cochise.

  • @doelstu Talk to any player that knows anything, and they would tell you Morello revolutionized guitar the way that EVH did with Eruption. To say that he couldn't roadie for a white Son House wannabe is ridiculous. I like Jack White, but lets no kid ourselves here. Morello = Original White = Original take on a black man's blues songs.

  • @doelstu You're an idiot. You clearly don't understand the way Morello plays. Open your fucking mind.

  • @Firecrotch6979 That you're a fan tells me all I need to know. Get out more. Morello would crap his pants if he had to live in the society he promotes. He's an elitist blowhard who is in dire need of a proper setup on that POS acoustic he's attempting to play.

  • Why is everyone repeating what he is saying?

  • @ChrisJ1986 Because loud sound systems are not allowed there so they used this old technique to spread the words.

  • @ChrisJ1986 They are sheeps in the church of Leftism.

  • morello needs a singer

  • Fucking Epic in deed.

    "And I suspect that if one flew, then ninety nine would follow"

    Tom is the man!

    Let's hope those 99 follow...

  • * plays the first riff

    * (waits for everyone to repeat it)

    * plays the next riff ...

  • @fertileboredom lololol I dont think that would work

  • Thus my faith in Rage Against the Machine has been amplified a billion times fold.

  • Seriously....just on musical performance alone....this was garbage.

  • I like Rage Against The Machine but everybody knows they are rich, snot nosed brats like the peeps occupying right? I do love how the celebs are getting in on the photo ops! Classic. Keep it up dip shits!

  • morello needs to stick to JUST guitar, wow that was bad

  • This idiot. Hey Tom, you're rich. Doesn't matter how. SPREAD THE WEALTH. You hypocritical bastard. You have millions upon million. Send me $250,000. Or should we protest and march on your driveway!?

  • @LordWhorfinX2

    Oh. not this retarded argument again!

    If Tom is rich, he is advocating against his personal interests and in favor of the working class. I can't see how this would make him a hypocrite!

    And why would he give the money to YOU, you fucking teabagger? By your logic, why don't you do it first and give half your money to a homeless guy?

  • @drizztf88 When he gives the VAST majority of his own personal wealth away, then I'll leave it alone

  • @LordWhorfinX2 Even if he gave all of his fortune away and spreaded it through one country it wouldn't make the smallest difference. Through his music and activism, and from a young age(when he hadn't made money), he is advocating for a major change in politics so that people like himself or much richer will have to eventually pay.Your logic:

    If you're rich and advocate for social justice ->hypocrite

    If you're poor " ->lazy/useless

    Something's wrong with this logic.

  • @drizztf88 his fortune would make a MASSIVE difference in most inner city schools. Why not just put it all there? I never suggested that he could wipe out world hunger but he could DO SOMETHING instead of playing in a shitty band and babbling on at a protest where they don't like rich people..lol

  • @drizztf88 Also, he doesn't need the government to be able to give his money away you ignorant commie. He can do it RIGHT NOW, and even right it off on his taxes..lol.

  • @LordWhorfinX2

    The point is not to just give to charity to alleviate the suffering on particular occasions. However important on many occasions, charity will aways be a drop in the ocean. What Tom does is adress the reasons that make people be in need of charity, and attack the policies that do, so his actions are more important than charity.

    Other than that, the band has given a lot to charity all these years, who are you to say how much they should give to charity?

  • @drizztf88 So now words are louder than action? LOL. Also, If they think they can tell people what to do in banks and companies than we can tell Tom how to donate. Such leftist double standards it's sick.

  • @LordWhorfinX2 He did it fairly. Bankers cheat. thats the whole point.

  • LOL.

    A guitar, REALLY? Seriously? At this time? Ok go on then.

    Clap your hands and then go home.

  • MORELLO IS A SELL OUT FAGGOT

  • Why doesent he throw a show , and help simulate the economy that way instead of standing there bullshitting and blaming others for his problems.

  • @numberonemisfitsfan check out rage against the machine sleep now in the fire video you little shyster. its rage against the machine with micheal moore getting arrested for playing at wallstreet without permission. they were occupy wallstreet before it even happened. stop hanging your teats out in the breeze before you get hurt

  • @Nuncotics Do they have a permit for playing? If not its bound to be expected , and if so its VERY inconsiderit. And shyter? Fuck you , cunt. And talk normal you liberal fuck.

  • rage against the machine is great but wall-street is not what caused the crisis it's our own government 

  • Good Ol' Hypocrite Tom Morello---- remember when he was protesting about the janitors cleaning offices in LA and he thought they should be paid more than the people working in those offices, is Tom making less than his guitar tech? DOUBT IT. Fuck off socialist hypocrite.

  • it's all fun and games until 20something hipsters have to put together a resume for a job interview.

  • thank god for tom morello...I'm glad he is standing up for what's right

  • It's quite peculiar liberals will scream bloody effin murder when a Republican administration dolls out a couple hundred billion dollars to their friends on wall street, but suddenly come down with a case of amnesia when a certain democratic president does the same damn thing, but this time around gives them even more money. liberalism is a mental disorder. Notice I didn't capitalize "liberal". Is anyone smart enough to figure out why?

  • @sellsjeeps To add to that point, Wall Street gave a hell of a lot more money to Obama than McCain in 2008. And it loooks like that trend is going to hold true in 2012 as well.

  • Morello is full of shit! He should move to Cuba.

  • TOM you gotta get the band together and start playing WAKE UP in Times Square, the revolution is coming. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

  • This fucker was/is on a major record label: Sony Records. How is he gonna speak for us? He's also trying to plug his solo project which is shit. I guess he has no problem with that corporate dick in his mouth.

  • protest the federal reserve

  • Chanting like this is what pol pot did to indoctrinate the khmer rouge.

    Shut the fuck you you fucking miserable parasite. Your music sucks.

  • Haha he sorta sounds like Obama.

  • Tom sucks at singing

  • @vinceraney nou

  • @vinceraney Watch his other songs you can't form an opinion because of one song that was performed with the lowest quality material on some street in New York. Still better than the modern people that need auto tune to sound less suckish. But still suckish

  • ONE BIG UNION OF ALL THE WORKERS..

  • tax the rich jews.

  • @mow1717 Keep your racist bullshit to yourself. There are also a lot of Christians who fucked everybody over.

  • Well, Tom, I never expected to find so many haters in the comment section. Nevermind them, I personally thank you for your appearance and performance down on OCCUPY WALL ST AND LA!! I'm one of the lucky ones, I've seen you LIVE in NYC @ the City Winery this past Sept 1st, great performance! We asked and you CAME! I admire you and your dedication to your family and fans...AMERICA! And thankyou for the suggestions to our President, I hope he sees this video! Peace to you,Mary Gerald Phillips

  • Boycott Rage Against the Machine

  • @apasqualle Not a chance!!! Boycott you and your backwardness!!! Your kind are being left behind in the darkness as the people are marching forward to a new world responsive to us all!!! Morello, fantastic as ever!!!

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  • Uh Tom this is why you need an amplifier to play rock music. Some body plug this guy in.*facepalm*

  • this man studied political science at harvard in case anyone was wondering

  • So because you can play guitar that makes you informed about complex decisions that need to be made about the future of our society? Uh, sorry, but no dude. This is celebrity worship of the absolute worst kind imaginable.

  • @duckdown1993 Well now, in that case it's a good thing Tom Morello has a Harvard degree in Political Science then, huh? Seriously dude. Lurk Moar. You'd make yourself look less ignorant then.

  • @basletum

    Actually he graduated with a degree in Social Studies. But you're right - doesn't matter if it was Political Science or Social Studies the degree is essentially worthless. Do you have any idea what the course criteria is for political science classes at Harvard or the vast majority of schools for that matter? You might want to take a look.

  • @duckdown1993 FAIL. Morello studied Political Science at Harvard. That's where you learn about ad-hominem attacks at what it means to attack the individual rather than their arguments. Congrats, you Double FAIL.

  • The protesters are marrying Tom Morello.

  • How come I never hear about tom morello or rage against the machine give back to the community. Giving to charities, to the poor, helping people no matter what there religion or political background may be. Hypocrites!

  • @MayorMcCheese78 Perhaps he donates anonymously and doesn't go around trumpeting his "good deeds" like some hypocrite corporation?

  • @basletum Seriously dude?! Ive worked in a warehouse and Ive seen thousands of products being sent to poorer countrys and regions all donated by wal-mart....a corporation.

  • @MayorMcCheese78 Yeah spread the corporate consumer culture to all corners of the earth. Get em all hooked. that's smart.... not. How bout instead of donating worthless material bullshit, everyone go volunteer to be on the ground level and feed and clothe them with your own hands.

  • @Neuromance27 So coporations donating material bullshit is a bad thing? and with what money will you get all this food and clothing with? Is it coming from your pocket? So your saying poor people should turn down material bullshit because it comes from wal-mart or some other corporation? That they should only accept things from some volunteer that doesnt have a dime to give them?!

  • Tom isn't it surprising how un aware and ignorant the average Rage fan is ? It appears they didn't listen to the lyrics whatsoever by these ridiculous comments. Keep up the good work i.e. Rage Inc which set the tone for political music in the modern era kudos amigo. Peace

  • Tom Morello is part of the enemy

  • omg fucking epic!!! 

  • i used to like Tom Morello but now it's obvious he's just another douche bag

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  • "why are you guys repeating everything I say?"

    ..."why are you guys repeating everything I say?"

    "No seriously stop, it's annoying"

    ..."No seriously stop, it's annoying"

    "STOP IT! UH! DAMN....MOM!"

    ..."stop it, damn, mom"

  • @PIlotrcm They are doing this so the rest of the crowd can hear they are not allowed a p.a. system

  • @PIlotrcm The point is so that the people in the back can hear if you don't have access to a microphone.

  • @PIlotrcm its called the peoples mic, ass biscuit

  • why are they repeating what he says.

  • @BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS NYC banned megaphones during speeches. This is called a human microphone because they can't silence the freedom of speech.

  • @SeipherRed haha thats actually kind of cool as opposed to creepy

  • @BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS They are letting the people in the back hear what he is saying.

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  • Yeah!!!! Artists join the movement......inspires me to raise my voice!

  • WE NEED RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE BACK! we need rage against the machine more then we ever needed!!

  • That's cool, I seriously doubt they give a flying fuck what you think of them. And perhaps you don't realize how much we laugh at Middle America for their inbreeding and chromosome damage.

  • @mikper7 Wow that is an ignorant statement. Tread carefully or something bad might happen to you that you don't understand. The chromosome damage is form heavy metals in the environment.

  • @trustinstinct Tread carefully? Chromosome damage from heavy metals in the environment? What are you a fucking nerd? Chemical imbalance? Ha,ha douchey.

  • See, and here I thought it's selfish and greedy to occupy a place that isn't yours, force the public to put up with your trash and stink, and virtually take over public and private property because you happen to think others are selfish and greedy. These stinking morons don't even realize how much middle America is laughing at them and their freakshow.

  • Tom Morello has always been one of my favorite marxists. I didn't know how much his acoustic music sucks. I suppose he needs a Polyphonic Octave Generator to sound like he can play worth a damn

  • its official...this guy doesn't know what hes talking about

  • He's cool and all, but he really can't sing.

  • I love watching all the people.

  • Take it back ya'll! We need Rage to keep the balance in this twisted place.

  • COPY AND PASTE AND WACH THIS YOUTUBE UPLOAD NEW!

    I am not moving! - short film by Corey Ogilvie - Occupy Wall Street

  • Zulu guitar, respect.

  • Tom, if you ever read this message, thanks for coming down to NYC, thanks for making your voice be heard. Thank you!

  • Thanks Tom. We need more people like you to show support for the movement.

  • @eddiehaskell7 Wait...what how is calling obama a coward supporting him..only one being laughed at is you. Do yourself a favour and please actually look what these people are fighting for. I really hope you're bluffing by the way and not everyone where you live is as ignorant as you.

  • @eddiehaskell7 i believe it was Bush who signed the bailout.

  • @CkyRckr They both signed bailouts, Bush and Obama share the guilt. Look closely we don't really have a two party system. There is no real difference between a democrat or republican anymore.

  • @karalinev1 well duh. they are all in it for the money. listen dude, list all the details before you go ranting on how "utterly pathetic" these people are. obama was full of promises that he couldn't keep. bush was a fucking hillbilly moron. this isn't a political party battle no matter how hard the democrats and republicans try to make it their own. get that through your head.

  • @CkyRckr Just pointing out the obvious, the reasons why people are protesting are as different as night and day. I will also point out that I am of the 53% that pays taxes for the 47% that are subsidized. I am so tired of seeing hard working people loose everything they work for while we pay for flatbackers and large corporations and at the same time I have to figure out how to keep my head above water and my family fed. I cannot stand stupid bureaucrat's.

  • @karalinev1 i'm part of the same 53% that pays the taxes. why should we be stuck with the bill while the TOP and the BOTTOM don't pay anything. i don't agree with how the welfare system is handled. i also don't agree with how the rich are handled(special treatment). you don't think most of these people want to get back to work? i'm sure a lot of them come after work or on days off to protest.

  • @CkyRckr That's the problem a large percentage of people probably want to go back to work while of course a percentage has no problem raising our taxes to pay for them. Me personally think a huge con job was perpetrated against Americans by large corporations and our politicians. I've listened to the Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movement they are sending similar messages but from different sides of the coin.

  • @karalinev1 Tea Party movement is political. OWS is not. Hell, they want the Tea Partiers with them.

  • @eddiehaskell7 answer me this, in your mind, how is he an "idiot"