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Behind America’s dollar hamburgers and 72-ounce sodas is a key ingredient that more...quietly fuels our fast-food nation: corn. In KING CORN , recent college graduates Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis leave the east coast for rural Iowa, where they decide to grow an acre of the nation’s most powerful crop.
Alarmed by signs of America’s bulging waistlines, the filmmakers arrive in the Midwest enthusiastic about their new endeavor. For their farm-to-be, they choose a tiny town in Floyd, County, Iowa—a place that, coincidentally, both Ian and Curt’s great-grandfathers called home three generations ago. They lease an acre of land from a skeptical landlord, fill out a pile of paperwork to sign up for subsidies and discover the U.S. government will pay them 28 dollars for their acre. Ian and Curt start the spring by injecting ammonia fertilizer, which promises to increase crop production four-fold. Then it’s planting time.
With a rented high-tech tractor, they set 31,000 seeds in the ground in just 18 minutes. Their corn has also been genetically modified for another yield-increasing characteristic: herbicide resistance. When the seedlings sprout from Iowa’s black dirt, Ian and Curt apply a powerful herbicide to ensure that only their corn will thrive on their acre.
As Ian and Curt discover, almost everything Americans eat contains corn. High-fructose corn syrup, corn-fed meat, and corn-based processed foods are the staples of the modern diet. America’s record harvests of corn are supported by a government subsidy system that promotes corn production beyond all market demand. As Ian and Curt return to Iowa to watch their 10,000-pound harvest fill the combine’s hopper and make its way into America’s food, they realize their acre of land shouldn’t be planted in corn again—if they can help it.
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| |  | ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 
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Over 6 Billion of us are held captive through corporate dominance. We are only profit and loss numbers.
As we watch and wait for a solution, they transfer more...the wealth
and bill us for our own destruction.
We far outnumber those who oppress us, who control every continent and every country and greedily feast as they create our famine.
We must starve them.
We must withdraw support.
It is time to break through the illusion...
It is time to stop running from our lives and start living them...
It is time for Peaceful Global Non-Compliance
http://www.unitedwestrike.com
***Feel free to mirror, share, post this video everywhere*** less
Added: Jul 11, 10
Channel: CanEHdianRockerLive
Views: 815
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| | |  | The Mayan Calendar 2012 & Beyond
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This is about the MAYAN PREDICTIONS and has nothing to do with selling anything. Its straight narrated information from the Mayan Prediction and how more...they calculated the calender of the cosmos. I wish live video will allow the information to get out and stop the childish censoring! to the moderators: I apologize that I don't upload mindless crap or smut. Its hard for me to participate in DUMBING down my fellow peeps. But hey the majority do exactly that so why stop little ole me? less
Added: Mar 9, 09
Channel: genefire
Views: 3,519
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| | |  | Iceland protest november 8 - 2008
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Today , a few thousand people protested downtown in Reykjavik ,Iceland.
People nearly surrounded the Parliement bulding.
Mototcycles where the in force more...- and when they where asked to leave the are,the showed the power of the motorbikes ,and filled the area with smoke.
Aggresive protesters ,put a flag on the building ,marked - BONUS - that is the flag of cheap food stores in ICeland owned by Jon Asgeir Johannesson ,the owner of the other media in Iceland, Channel 2 ( www.stod2.is )
People are getting very angry at the goverment and the Icelandic central bank .
Eggs and tomatos where where used to hit the paeliement building.
According to local news ,no arrests where made. less
Added: Nov 9, 08
Channel: dorisig
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|  | The True Cost of Food
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A campaign to promote sustainable food choices.
from the Sierra Club National Sustainable Consumption Committee.
We, the consumers, through our food more...choices, can stop the practices that harm our health, our planet, and our quality of life. less
Added: Nov 7, 08
Channel: Smokescreen
Views: 1,208
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| | |  | Dueling puppets
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I'm speechless
Who's in charge?
I was under the impression that Canada and Australia were sovereign countries.
I guess not.
This video shows more...the heads of both these states reading the same exact statement - word for word - supporting the invasion of Iraq.
Who wrote this thing?
Who distributed it?
Who compelled these obvious puppets to read it? less
Added: Oct 14, 08
Channel: walkinturtle2u
Views: 801
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| |  | End of Empire - 4/4
31:11
Link to part 1/4 below
This documentary film features current data about the existing situation facing humanity and the world. It discusses issues such more...as peak oil, climate change, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed.
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Added: Oct 11, 08
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|  | End of Empire - 3/4
30:16
Link to part 4/4 below
This documentary film features current data about the existing situation facing humanity and the world. It discusses issues such more...as peak oil, climate change, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed.
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Added: Oct 11, 08
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| |  | End of Empire - 2/4
30:04
Link to part 3/4 below
This documentary film features current data about the existing situation facing humanity and the world. It discusses issues such more...as peak oil, climate change, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed.
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Added: Oct 11, 08
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|  | End of Empire - 1/4
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Link to part 2/4 below
This documentary film features current data about the existing situation facing humanity and the world. It discusses issues such more...as peak oil, climate change, population overshoot and species extinction, as well as how this situation has developed.
Click here to view part 2/4
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