Rage opened up for the great Irish rockers U2 in 1997, and all of their profits went to support social organizations including U.N.I.T.E., Women Alive, and the Zapatista Front for National Liberation.
To say the least, lead singer Zach De la Rocha, and guitarist Tom Morello certainly put their money where their mouths were.
The bands debut album “Rage Against The Machine”, with it’s driving anthem for equality and social justice showed a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself to death on the cover.  The song “Killing In The Name” would achieve Platinum album status.

This monk would be on the cover of many magazines when I was a young kid.  It was beautiful, and yet so horrific at the same time.
President Diem whom we backed during that terrible Vietnam War was killing Buddhist monks and many others.  The monk burnt himself to death in protest of the brutal Diem regime.
Diem was also passionately anti-Communist. Tortures and killings of “communist suspects” were committed on a daily basis. The death toll was put at around 50,000 with 75,000 imprisonments, and Diem’s effort extended beyond communists to anti-communist dissidents and anti-corruption whistle blowers.
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico, is an armed revolutionary group whom “Rage Against The Machine” supported in the 1990’s.
The Zapatista’s opposed globalization, and the effects that it had upon the peasants and their people’s indigenous way of life, and some consider them to be the first “post-modern” revolution.  They wanted to protect their own resources and land, in addition to their jobs that were being wiped out by NAFTA and cheaply mass -produced American genetically modified agricultural imports.  NAFTA and the removal of Article 27 from the Mexican Constitution, which previously guaranteed land reparations to the indigenous peoples of Mexico, helped to cement their cultural, familial, and social devastation.

So this became an axe to grind with Zach de La Rocha and “Rage Against The Machine”, after NAFTA was signed into law under the Clinton Administration.
De la Rocha has been particularly outspoken on the cause of the EZLN. He explained the importance of the cause to him personally:
“ It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States… Through concerts, videos, interviews, broadcasting of information at concerts, and our songs’ lyrics we have placed within reach of young people, our audience, the experiences of the Zapatistas; we act as facilitators of the ways in which they can participate and put them in contact with the organization and the Zapatista support committees in the United States”.
Lead singer de La Rocha of Rage would take many trips to Chiapas, Mexico to help the people.

At a concert in Coachella Valley, California, “RAGES” lead singer Zach De la Rocha would quote his good friend Noam Chomsky, that would later be used by Fox News against them suggesting that the President of the United States should be assassinated.

The radical and wild haired Zach would say at the concert,
“A good friend of ours once said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II [...] every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on, would have been hung to death and shot—and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be”.

At another concert Zach would go off on Fox News and “Hannity and Colmes” by saying,  “A couple of months ago, those fascist motherfuckers at the Fox News Network attempted to pin this band into a corner by suggesting that we said that the president should be assassinated. Nah, what we said was that he should be brought to trial as a war criminal and hung and shot. THAT’S what we said. And we don’t back away from the position because the real assassinator is Bush and Cheney and the whole administration for the lives they have destroyed here and in Iraq.
They’re the ones. And what they refused to air which was far more provocative in my mind and in the minds of my bandmates is this: this system has become so brutal and vicious and cruel that it needs to start wars and profit from the destruction around the world in order to survive as a world power. THAT’s what we said. And we refuse not to stand up, we refuse to back down from that position”…

The Zapatista’s continue to fight for change, but not through the muzzle of a gun anymore, as they were crushed by the Mexican military back in the 90’s. They disseminate they’re causes and conditions to the world by the use of the internet to expand their base of support.

The band “RAGE” had, and still has balls, and so where are all the musicians today that have a social conscience and a passion for the poor and downtrodden, and are willing to “stick their necks out”?  and I mean for anything other than fame and fortune.

-Sailor Turtle

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How To do a run command - Click Start, Click Run and enter the command Click OK

Run commands

Calc - Calculator
Cfgwiz32 - ISDN Configuration Wizard
Charmap - Character Map
Chkdisk - Repair damaged files
Cleanmgr - Cleans up hard drives
Clipbrd - Windows Clipboard viewer
Cmd - Opens a new Command Window (cmd.exe)
Control - Displays Control Panel
Dcomcnfg - DCOM user security
Debug - Assembly language programming tool
Defrag - Defragmentation tool
Drwatson - Records programs crash & snapshots
Dxdiag - DirectX Diagnostic Utility
Explorer - Windows Explorer
Fontview - Graphical font viewer
Ftp - ftp.exe program
Hostname - Returns Computer’s name
Ipconfig - Displays IP configuration for all network adapters
Jview - Microsoft Command-line Loader for Java classes
MMC - Microsoft Management Console
Msconfig - Configuration to edit startup files
Msinfo32 - Microsoft System Information Utility
Nbtstat - Displays stats and current connections using NetBios over TCP/IP
Netstat - Displays all active network connections
Nslookup- Returns your local DNS server
Ping - Sends data to a specified host/IP
Regedit - egistry Editor
Regsvr32 - egister/de-register DLL/OCX/ActiveX
Regwiz - Reistration wizard
Sfc /scannow - Sytem File Checker
Sndrec32 - Sound Recorder
Sndvol32 - Volume control for soundcard
Sysedit - Edit system startup files (config.sys, autoexec.bat, win.ini, etc.)
Taskmgr - Task manager
Telnet - Telnet program
Tracert - Traces and displays all paths required to reach an internet host
Winipcfg - Displays IP configuration

see that wasn’t to hard. next: management controls
Management Consoles

certmgr.msc - Certificate Manager
ciadv.msc - Indexing Service
compmgmt.msc - Computer management
devmgmt.msc - Device Manager
dfrg.msc - Defragment
diskmgmt.msc - Disk Management
fsmgmt.msc - Folder Sharing Management
eventvwr.msc - Event Viewer
gpedit.msc - Group Policy -XP Pro only
iis.msc - Internet Information Services
lusrmgr.msc - Local Users and Groups
mscorcfg.msc - Net configurations
ntmsmgr.msc - Removable Storage
perfmon.msc - Performance Manager
secpol.msc - Local Security Policy
services.msc - System Services
wmimgmt.msc - Windows Management

things are flowing quite smoothy… next: The dreaded shortcuts

Shortcuts

access.cpl - Accessibility Options
hdwwiz.cpl - Add New Hardware Wizard
appwiz.cpl - dd/Remove Programs
timedate.cpl - Date and Time Properties
desk.cpl - Display Properties
inetcpl.cpl - Internet Properties
joy.cpl - Joystick Properties
main.cpl keboard - Keyboard Properties
main.cpl - Mouse Properties
ncpa.cpl - Network Connections
ncpl.cpl - Network Properties
telephon.cpl - Phone and Modem options
powercfg.cpl - Power Management
intl.cpl - Regional settings
mmsys.cpl sounds - Sound Properties
mmsys.cpl - Sounds and Audio Device Properties
sysdm.cpl - System Properties
nusrmgr.cpl - User settings
firewall.cpl - Firewall Settings (sp2)
wscui.cpl - Security Center (sp2)

God i really hated those on to the next stuff: windows environment controls

Windows Environment Commands

%ALLUSERSPROFILE% - Open the All User’s Profile
%HomeDrive% - Opens your home drive e.g. C:\
%UserProfile% - Opens you User’s Profile
%temp% Opens - temporary file Folder
%systemroot% - Opens Windows folder

Wupdmgr - Takes you to Microsoft Windows Update

I don’t quite know all of these puppy’s, so if you know anymore let me know. also note some of these only work with XP pro

Next: The Nitty gritty sometimes forget full General Keyboard shortcuts.

General keyboard shortcuts
CTRL+C(Copy)
CTRL+X (Cut)
CTRL+Z (Undo)
DELETE (Delete)
SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
F2 key (Rename the selected item)
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word)
CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word)
CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph)
CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph)
SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)
CTRL+A (Select all)
F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu)
Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command)
F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)
LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)
F5 key (Update the active window)
BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
ESC (Cancel the current task)
SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing)
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (Open Task Manager)
Oops! almost forgot CTRL V (For paste)

Well thats about all the shortcuts that come to mind at the moment. I’m sure i’ll think of more and i’ll post them up. This is my first Blog and i wanted to make it as informative as possible. so please let me know that it was at least slightly helpful. oh! and thanks for reading this geeks blog.

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