Les graines de tournesol, une collation santé!

Les graines de cette magnifique fleur sont d’une grande richesse nutritive. Elles sont riches en phosphore, manganèse, zinc, potassium, magnésium et l’apport en fer de la graine de tournesol n’a rien à envier au germe de blé, au foie ou au jaune d’œuf. Elles sont également riches en vitamines du groupe B et en vitamine E.

Faites le plein d’énergie

Une poignée de graines de tournesol contient 55% de la valeur quotidienne recommandée en thiamine. Elle apporte également de bonnes quantités de folate et acide pantothénique, des vitamines du groupe B. Ces vitamines jouent un rôle important dans l’utilisation des hydrates de carbone par l’organisme.

Baisser le taux de cholestérol

Les graines de tournesol sont riches en acides gras polyinsaturés, particulièrement sous forme d’acide linoléique, un acide gras oméga-6. On y trouve également près de 20% d’acides gras monoinsaturés. Ces acides gras, lorsqu’ils sont équilibrés avec les Oméga-3, contribuent à une meilleure santé cardiovasculaire.

Les graines de tournesol sont riches en phytostérols, 270 mg par tasse. Ces composés ont une structure chimique semblable au cholestérol. Ils éliminent le mauvais cholestérol (LDL) de l’organisme. Dans l’intestin, ils entrent en compétition avec le cholestérol et en réduisent l’absorption dans le sang. Le cholestérol est alors éliminé dans les selles.

Perdre du poids et réduire certains effets du syndrome prémenstruel

Une demi-tasse de graines de tournesol contient environ 255 mg de magnésium. Un nutriment indispensable à la vie et capable de prévenir les crises cardiaques, de soulager le syndrome prémenstruel, de soulager l'hypertension artérielle, l'arythmie cardiaque, les inflammations, contribuer à perdre du poids, prévenir les calculs rénaux et aider l’organisme à vaincre les infections les plus redoutables.

Soulager des allergies et certains troubles inflammatoires

Les graines de tournesol sont une des meilleures sources de vitamine E. Une seule poignée vous apportera 90% de l’apport quotidien recommandé. Ce puissant antioxydant neutraliserait les radicaux libres responsables de l’inflammation. Des études sur des souris ont démontrés que la vitamine E réduisait les niveaux de prostaglandines inflammatoires.

Les graines de tournesol sont également un excellent aliment pour les enfants en croissance et les femmes enceintes.

L'ananas est délicieux et surtout il est bon pour votre santé !

L'ananas a souvent été mentionné comme un adjuvant efficace à la perte de poids. Mais c'est surtout un aliment qui est une excellente source de manganèse, de vitamine C de fibres et d'une précieuse enzyme digestive et anti-inflammatoire, la bromélaïne.

Le manganèse est utilisé par l'organisme pour fabriquer le collagène, une protéine fibreuse qui contribue à constituer les tissus conjonctifs comme les os, la peau et le cartilage. Une carence en manganèse provoquera des troubles similaires à ceux de l'ostéoporose. Une étude a permis de constater que les femmes atteintes d'ostéoporose avaient des taux de manganèse plus bas que celles qui n'étaient pas atteintes de ce trouble.

Une portion de 200 grammes d'ananas fournit plus de 2 milligrammes de manganèse, soit plus de 100% de la valeur quotidienne recommandée.

La bromélaïne est une enzyme qui favorise la digestion en décomposant les protéines. La mauvaise digestion des protéines pouvant occasionner certains troubles de santé, comme des allergies ou des maladies provoquées par une putréfaction digestive menant à auto-intoxication.

La Bromelaïne est également une enzyme de type protéolytique et possédant des propriétés anti-inflammatoires. En combinaison avec d'autres enzymes elle peut soulager les symptômes d'infection de l'appareil urinaire.
Elle fluidifie naturellement le sang et elle prévient les agrégations plaquettaires excessives. Cela pourrait expliquer en partie les résultats de différentes études cliniques démontrant une incidence entre la prise de Bromelaïne et une réduction d'angines de poitrine et de thrombophlébites.

Finalement la Bromelaïne réduirait l'épaisseur du mucus, ce qui bénéficierait aux personnes souffrant d'asthme et de bronchite chronique.

Vous souffrez d'un rhume ? La vitamine C est précieuse pour abaisser le taux d'histamine, une substance responsable des yeux larmoyants et du nez qui coule, symptômes habituels du rhume. L'ananas contient de bonne source de vitamine C, surtout lorsque consommé sous forme de jus. Un seul verre de jus d'ananas peut contenir jusqu'à 60 milligrammes de vitamine C, soit 100% de la valeur quotidienne recommandée.

Une des propriétés les moins connues de l'ananas, est sa propriété de lutter contre certains parasites. Particulièrement les parasites de type amibes et protozoaires. Faire une cure d'ananas et papaye est un excellent moyen, entre autres, de se débarrasser de nombreux parasites dissimulés dans notre organisme à notre insu.

Vous digérez mal? Mangez de l’ananas au dessert

Les ventes importantes d’antiacides démontrent que la mauvaise digestion est un mal très répandu dans nos sociétés occidentales.

Une mauvaise digestion est responsable de sensation de brûlures au niveau du tube digestif et de ballonnements et flatulences.

Une mauvaise digestion des protéines est souvent en cause. Cette mauvaise digestion des protéines peut occasionner certains troubles de santé, comme des allergies ou des maladies provoquées par une putréfaction digestive menant à auto-intoxication.

L’abus d’utilisation d’antiacides n’est pas une bonne solution, elle entraîne d’autres conséquences négatives pour la santé, dont une mauvaise assimilation de certaines vitamines et de minéraux, comme le calcium.

Un bon moyen d’améliorer naturellement la digestion des protéines, est de consommer de l’ananas à la fin du repas. Celui-ci est riche en bromélaïne, une enzyme qui favorise la digestion en décomposant les protéines. De plus, la bromelaïne est également une enzyme de type protéolytique qui possède des propriétés anti-inflammatoires.

Ajoutez de l’ananas à votre dessert, particulièrement lorsque le repas a été riche en protéines. C’est un fruit délicieux, aux nombreuses vertus.

Prévenir et guérir les lithiases biliaires

(pierres dans la vésicule)

La vésicule biliaire est un petit sac musculaire, qui constitue une ramification du canal cholédoque, le conduit qui mène la bile du foie à l'intestin. La bile s'accumule dans la vésicule et s'y concentre afin d'être versée en doses mesurées dans l'intestin pour aider à la digestion des graisses.

La concentration de la bile peut-être excessive et former des pierres (appelés également calculs) 80% sont constituées de cholestérol et 20% sont constituées de calcium.

Rien qu'en Amérique du Nord il y aurait plus d'un million de personnes atteintes de pierres à la vésicule. La plupart de ces personnes ignorent leur condition.

La médecine moderne n'a d'autre traitement que l'opération qui consiste en l'ablation complète de la vésicule biliaire. Selon de nombreux naturopathes, près de 85% de ces ablations, ne seraient pas nécessaires, des soins alternatifs pouvant éliminer naturellement les pierres.
Cependant dans 15% des cas, les pierres sont de taille trop importante pour pouvoir être éliminées naturellement, et l'opération est la seule option raisonnable. Il est donc important de s'assurer de la taille des pierres présentes, avant de décider d'entreprendre un traitement naturel ou de subir une opération. Cela se fait au moyen d'une échographie.

Les pierres présentes dans la vésicule biliaire peuvent être aussi fines que le sable et aussi grandes qu'une balle de golf!

Comme nous l'avons mentionné, nombreuses sont les personnes ignorant souffrir de pierres à la vésicule.

Les symptômes :

Dans la plupart des cas le ou les symptômes se manifestent sous forme de douleur sous les côtes, du côté droit, dans la zone du foie; cette douleur peut irradier jusqu'au dessus de l'épaule et atteindre le milieu du dos, dans la région du rein droit. On peut également ressentir une douleur qui semble transpercer l'abdomen. Lorsqu'il y a fortes nausées et envie de vomir ou des vomissements, une sensation de frissons, un teint jaunâtre ou le blanc des yeux jaunes, en cas de présence d'un ou de plusieurs de ces symptômes, il faut consulter en urgence.

Comment prévenir les pierres à la vésicule :

Les femmes sont particulièrement atteintes de cette affection, surtout lorsqu'il y a un excès de poids, ou lors d'une perte de poids trop rapide. L'alimentation joue évidemment un rôle préventif très important. Éviter les graisses saturées et s'assurer d'un bon contrôle du cholestérol qui constitue la matière première de 80% des pierres de la vésicule.
Graines de lin moulues :
2. c. à table de graines de lin moulues par jour. Par leur richesse en acidce linoïque, les graines de lin favorisent la fluidité des gras circulant dans le système hépatique. Elles aideront à prévenir les calculs biliaires et même les dissoudre.
La lécithine :
Dans le foie, la lécithine permet de mieux métaboliser les matières grasses. Elle contribue notamment à limiter les risques de dégénérescence du foie en permettant la mobilisation des dépôts de gras qui se trouvent dans cet organe. La lécithine contribue à liquéfier le cholestérol présent dans la vésicule biliaire. La lécithine peut-être achetée en granules dans les magasins d'aliments naturels. Elle peut alors être consommée avec des céréales ou tout autre aliment. On peut également se procurer des gélules de lécithine.
Mangez des noix :
Une étude de Harvard a démontré que les personnes consommant 150g de noix par jour, présentent un risque de 25% inférieur de souffrir de pierres dans la vésicule biliaire. Ce serait la richesse des noix en acides gras essentiels qui favoriseraient le contrôle du taux de cholestérol dans le sang.
La vitamine C :
Les femmes présentant un haut niveau de vitamine C dans le sang présentent un risque de 50% moins élevé de souffrir de pierres dans la vésicule biliaire, selon de récentes recherches. La dose gagnante serait de 2000 mg par jour.
Consommer suffisamment de fibres :
On connaît la propriété des fibres à réduire le taux de cholestérol dans l'organisme. Comme celui-ci est responsable de 80% des pierres formées, une consommation élevée en fibres contribue à prévenir le risque de formation de pierres.
Le chardon Marie :
Cette plante stimule la fonction hépatique et contribue également à réduire le taux de cholestérol.

Éliminer naturellement les petites pierres :

Les naturopathes utilisent généralement l'huile d'olive et le jus de citron pour éliminer naturellement les pierres de la vésicule biliaire. Il y a plusieurs techniques, selon le même principe. Voici une de ces techniques :
Une heure avant le coucher, mélanger ¼ de tasse d'huile d'olive avec ¼ de tasse de jus de citron. Boire le mélange.
Ensuite boire une tasse de tisane de cascara sagrada.
Étendez-vous en vous plaçant sur votre côté droit, pour une durée de 30 minutes.
Le matin, vérifiez si vos selles contiennent de petites pierres de couleur verdâtre. Si c'est le cas, vous avez éliminé des pierres de votre vésicule.

Vous pouvez répéter l'opération durant 2 ou 3 jours. Suivre une diète riche en légumes, et boire des jus verts (boissons riches en chlorophylle, jus d'orge vert, etc.)

Précautions :
Avant de procéder à ce traitement, assurez-vous par un diagnostic médical que vous ne souffrez pas de la présence de pierres de trop grande taille. Idéalement ce traitement naturel devrait être pratiqué sous la supervision d'un praticien de santé formé aux méthodes naturelles.

Eating Meat Kills More People Than Previously Thought

NaturalNews) There is no more denying it. Meat contains highly toxic substances that are responsible for many deaths and diseases. Heavy meat consumption increases your risk of dying from all causes, including heart disease and cancer, according to a federal study conducted by the National Cancer Institute and featured in Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday.

The study looked at the records of more than half a million men and women aged 50 to 71, following their diet and other health habits for 10 years. Between 1995 and 2005, 47,976 men and 23,276 women died.

The researchers divided the volunteers into 5 groups or "quintiles." All other major factors were accounted for -- eating fresh fruits and vegetables, smoking, exercise, obesity, etc. People eating the most meat consumed about 160g of red or processed meat per day - approximately a 6oz steak.

Women who ate large amounts of red meat had a 20 percent higher risk of dying of cancer and a 50 percent higher risk of dying of heart disease than women who ate less. Men had a 22 percent higher risk of dying of cancer and a 27 percent higher risk of dying of heart disease. That`s compared to those who ate the least red meat, just 5 ounces per week, or 25g per day -- approximately a small rasher of bacon.

The study also included data on white meat and found that a higher intake was associated with a slightly reduced risk of death over the same period. However, high white meat consumption still posed a major risk of dying.

"For overall mortality, 11 percent of deaths in men and 16 percent of deaths in women could be prevented if people decreased their red meat consumption to the level of intake in the first quintile," Sinha`s team wrote.

Sinha`s team noted that meat contains several cancer-causing chemicals, as well as the unhealthiest forms of fat.

The good news is that the U.S. government now recommends a "plant-based diet" with the emphasis on fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The bad news is that it also hands out massive farm subsidies that keep meat prices very low and encourage meat-based diets. The government`s food-price policies contribute to such risk-filled eating habits as meat consumption.

Another drawback is that the National Cancer Institute study only looked at the increased mortality risk resulting from meat consumption. It should be noted, that if eating meat can kill a large number of people, it can make an even larger number of people seriously ill.

Food that kills or makes people sick should not be considered food at all. However, the meat industry thinks otherwise. It believes that the study is flawed. American Meat Institute executive president, James Hodges, said: "Meat products are part of a healthy, balanced diet and studies show they actually provide a sense of satisfaction and fullness that can help with weight control. Proper body weight contributes to good health overall."

The question is whether it is worth risking one`s life over having a little sense of satisfaction and fullness, which could easily be experienced by eating a healthful diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds.

The new findings support a previous study published earlier this year in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which showed that eating meat boosts risk of prostate cancer by 40 Percent. And just last month, parents learned that their children had a 60% increased risk of developing leukemia if they consumed meat products, such as ham, sausages and hamburgers.

Vegetarians Live Longer and Healthier Lives

More recently, medical research has found that a properly balanced vegetarian diet may, in fact, be the healthiest diet. This was demonstrated by the over 11,000 volunteers who participated in the Oxford Vegetarian Study. For a period of 15 years, researchers analyzed the effects a vegetarian diet had on longevity, heart disease, cancer and various other diseases.

The results of the study stunned the vegetarian community as much as it did the meat-producing industry: "Meat eaters are twice as likely to die from heart disease, have a 60 percent greater risk of dying from cancer and a 30 percent higher risk of death from other causes."

In addition, the incidence of obesity, which is a major risk factor for many diseases, including gallbladder disease, hypertension and adult onset diabetes, is much lower in those following a vegetarian diet. According to a Johns Hopkins University research report on 20 different published studies and national surveys about weight and eating behavior, Americans across all age groups, genders and races are getting fatter. If the trend continues, 75 percent of U.S. adults will be overweight by the year 2015.

It is now almost considered the norm to be overweight or obese. Already more than 80 percent of African-American women over the age of 40 are overweight, with 50 percent falling into the obese category. This puts them at great risk for heart disease, diabetes and various cancers. A balanced vegetarian diet may be the answer to the current obesity pandemic in the United States and many other countries.

Those who include less meat in their diet also have fewer problems with cholesterol. The American National Institute of Health, in a study of 50,000 vegetarians, found that the vegetarians live longer and also have an impressively lower incidence of heart disease and a significantly lower rate of cancer than meat-eating Americans. And in 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that a vegetarian diet could prevent 90-97% of heart diseases.

What we eat is very important for our health. According to the American Cancer Society, up to 35 percent of the 900,000 new cases of cancer each year in the United States could be prevented by following proper dietary recommendation. Researcher Rollo Russell writes in his Notes on the Causation of Cancer: "I have found of twenty-five nations eating flesh largely, nineteen had a high cancer rate and only one had a low rate, and that of thirty-five nations eating little or no flesh, none of these had a high rate."

Could cancer lose its grip on modern societies if they turned to a balanced vegetarian diet? The answer is "yes," according to two major reports, one by the World Cancer Research Fund and the other by the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy in the United Kingdom. The reports conclude that a diet rich in plant foods and the maintenance of a healthy body weight could annually prevent four million cases of cancer worldwide. Both reports stress the need for increasing the daily intake of plant fiber, fruits and vegetables and reducing red and processed meat consumption to less than 80-90g.

If you are currently eating meat on a regular basis and wish to change over to a vegetarian diet, unless you suffer from a major cardiovascular illness, do not give up all flesh foods at once! The digestive system cannot adjust to a substantially different diet from one day to the next. Start by reducing the number of meals that include meats such as beef, pork, veal and lamb and substituting poultry and fish during these meals. In time, you will find that you are able to consume less poultry and fish also, without creating strain on the physiology due to too rapid an adjustment.

Note: Although the uric acid content of fish, turkey and chicken is less than in red meat and, therefore, not quite as taxing to the kidneys and tissues of the body, the degree of injury that is sustained to the blood vessels and intestinal tract from eating these coagulated proteins is no less than it is with the consumption of meat.

Death in the Meat

Research has shown that all meat eaters have worms and a high incidence of parasites in their intestines. This is hardly surprising given the fact that dead flesh (cadaver) is a favorite target for microorganisms of all sorts. A 1996 study by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed that nearly 80 percent of ground beef is contaminated with disease-causing microbes. The primary source of these bugs is feces. A study conducted by the University of Arizona found there are more fecal bacteria in the average kitchen sink than in the average toilet bowl. This would make eating your food on the toilet seat safer than eating it in the kitchen. The source of this biohazard at home is the meat you buy at the typical grocery store.

The germs and parasites found in meat weaken the immune system and are the source of many diseases. In fact, most food poisonings today are related to meat-eating. During a mass outbreak near Glasgow, 16 out of over 200 infected people died from the consequences of eating E. coli contaminated meat. Frequent outbreaks are reported in Scotland and many other parts of the world. More than half a million Americans, most of them children, have been sickened by mutant fecal bacteria (E. coli) in meat. These germs are the leading cause of kidney failure among children in the United States. This fact alone should prompt every responsible parent to prevent their children from eating flesh foods.

Not all parasites act so swiftly as E. coli though. Most of them have long-term effects that are noticed only after many years of eating meat. The government and the food industry are trying to divert attention from the escalating problem of meat contamination by telling the consumer it is his own fault that these incidents happen. It is very obvious that they want to avoid hefty lawsuits, and bad-mouthing of the meat industry. They insist that dangerous bacterial outbreaks occur because the consumer does not cook the family`s meat long enough. It is now considered a crime to serve a rare hamburger. Even if you have not committed this "crime," any infection will be attributed to not washing your hands every time you touch a raw chicken or to letting the chicken touch your kitchen counter or any other food. The meat itself, they claim, is totally safe and meets the standard safety requirements imposed by the government; of course, this holds true only as long as you keep disinfecting your hands and your kitchen countertop. It evades all good reasoning to propose such a "solution" to the 76 million cases of meat-borne illnesses a year, except to safeguard the vested interests of the government and the meat industry. If a particular imported food produced in China is found to be contaminated, even if it hasn`t actually killed anyone, it is immediately taken off the shelves of grocery stores. Yet, with all the research proving that meat-consumption harms and kills millions of people each year, meat continues to be sold in all grocery stores.

The new mutant bugs found in today`s meat are extremely deadly. For you to come down with Salmonella poisoning, you have to consume at least a million of these germs. But to become infected with one of the new mutant bugs, you need to ingest a measly five of them. In other words, a tiny particle of uncooked hamburger, making it from a kitchen utensil to your plate, is enough to kill you. Scientists have now identified more than a dozen food-borne pathogens with such deadly effects. The Center for Disease Control admits that they don`t even know the bugs behind most food-related illnesses and deaths.

Much of the germ-infestation of meat is caused by feeding farm animals foods that are unnatural to them. Cattle are now fed corn, which they are unable to digest, but it makes them fat very quickly. Cattle feed also contains chicken feces. The millions of pounds of chicken litter (feces, feathers and all) scraped off the floors of chicken houses are recycled as cattle feed. The cattle industry considers this "good protein." The other ingredients of cattle feed consist of ground-up parts of animals, such as deceased chickens, pigs and horses. According to the industry, giving the cattle natural, healthy feeds would be far too costly and so unnecessary. Who really cares what the meat is made of, as long as it looks like meat?

Combined with hefty doses of growth hormones, a diet of corn and special feeds shortens the duration of fattening up a steer for market from a normal time period of 4-5 years to a mere 16 months. Of course, the unnatural diet makes the cows sick. Like their human consumers, they suffer from heartburn, liver disease, ulcers, diarrhea, pneumonia and other infections. To keep the cattle alive until the deadline for slaughter at the "ripe old age" of 16 months, the cows need to be fed enormous doses of antibiotics. In the meantime, the microbes that respond to the massive biochemical assault of antibiotics, find ways to become immune to these drugs by mutating into resistant new strains.

Those unfortunate cows that don`t drop dead prematurely due to all the poisons fed to them during their short earthly existence, experience an undignified and gruesome end of life in the slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant. From there, the diseased, germ-infested meat ends up in your local grocery store, and a little later, on your dinner plate, if you so dare.

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Excerpts taken from "Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation"

Total Meltdown and Civil Unrest

Wall Street's Manipulated Stock Market Rally


By Matthias Chang

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12909

Global Research, March 26, 2009
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The numbers that have been bandied about is beyond the comprehension of the average Joe Six-Packs. I cannot even figure out $500 billion, what more $500 trillion. Ninety per cent of government leaders are also unable to figure out the enormity of the global debt sink-hole.

So, I have accepted the fact that 97 per cent of Americans will just accept whatever explanations and excuses thrown at them by President Obama, Fed Bernanke and Treasury Geithner for bailing out the banks and failing to prevent the implosion of the economy by summer of 2009.

Obama inherited the mess created by war criminal Bush, aided and abetted by Alan Greenspan, Bernanke and Geithner, so he can be excused for there is nothing that he can do at this late hour to change the outcome. But the rest should be lynched!


In the last two years, in several articles, I drew your attention to the fraudulent securities that have been peddled by the global banks and how they have caused the present grid-lock in the global financial system. In essence, these securities – MBS, CDOs, CLOs, etc. were all fraudulent papers. Whatever mortgages underlying these papers, were over-valued and now they have shown to be worth at the most 10 to 20 cents on the dollar.

There have been suggestions that if all these papers were to be shredded and the debts written off, the global banks' balance sheet would be wiped clean of such toxic assets. In the result the economy would restart and the good old days of cheap credit and unrestrained consumption would usher another boom!

This is a fairy tale.

In the old days, when the hoodlums want to kill someone and have him disappear for good, they would tie his legs together and attach the rope to a heavy object or an anchor and throw the poor fellow into the bottom of the lake or sea, never to be seen again. A small weight, say 10 kg is more than enough to drag the body to the bottom!

The current financial system is not unlike the man who has been thrown overboard and being dragged down by the heavy object. The only chance for survival is if the man could somehow loosen the rope and detach the weight from his legs and swim to the surface, if he could hold his breath long enough.

What is this small weight that is dragging the financial system down? And why writing off this particular debt will not save the banks?

Compared to the global derivative market which is valued in the hundreds of trillions, the global stock market by comparison is a midget. But it is this midget that will cause the financial implosion in America and Europe and reverberate across the world.

Let me explain in simple terms.

When the Dow collapsed from the stratospheric high of 14,000 to less than 7,000 recently (though recovered somewhat) and other stock markets also went south in tandem, it was estimated that at the minimum $30 trillion was wiped out.

What are the consequences of such a drastic collapse?

Let me explain in simple terms again.

Take the share price of Citigroup. At the height of the boom, its market capitalization was over $250 billion. Today, it is less than $10 billion.

Let us say that you bought the shares when it was trading at $150. You also borrowed from the bank to purchase the shares. These shares will have to be pledged to the bank as security for the loan. The shares are now trading a few dollars, say $5.

There is just no way that you can repay the loan and or to obtain additional security to “top-up” the value of the security pledged to the bank. Where are you going to get the cash to buy more shares? Shares of other companies that you may own have also collapsed, and their value may not be sufficient to cover the difference. You are dead meat!

The bank is also in deep trouble because there is no way that they can recover the loan from selling the shares, which is worth $5.

There is the added problem that companies, whose shares are traded in the stock exchange, are not worth even at current values because their core business and operations were premised on cheap credit and were therefore highly geared! These companies are in debt to their eyeballs!

They are insolvent, bankrupt!

Try as hard, the Fed and the Treasury will not be able to engineer a stock rally back to 14,000 points. And even if they could, it does not follow that the prices of the shares of specific companies would return to its previous high. In the case of Citigroup back to $200 per share!

There is no way in the next 3 to 5 years for companies whose businesses have collapsed to be able to recover fast enough and to be profitable enough to justify a market value of at least 50 per cent of its previous high. In the case of Citigroup, back up to $100.

That is an example in the financial sector.

In the manufacturing sector, an outfit like General Motors will take at least a decade to recover. Then there are those companies which have out-sourced and or re-located overseas. To restart local production again would take time and vast amount of credit. But would they be competitive, given cheaper cost of production elsewhere?

Corporate America is shutting down.

Stimulus and pump priming will not solve this huge problem.

Millions played at this casino using home equity. Pension funds risked your retirement benefits gambling at this casino and lost. Leveraging, 10, 20 or even 30 times was the norm. There is no money left in the kitty!

Quantity easing or printing money will not solve the problem, because a company's value and market capitalization can only be enhanced through actual production of goods and services. But the Western economies in the last twenty years were skewed towards consumption and the availability of cheap credit.

Applying common sense, what was missing was the creation of surplus value, which is the result of efficient production, and savings which in turn provide the essential capital for more production and savings.

Nothing illustrates this problem better than the case of a farmer who stops farming because he had so much cheap credit, that he stopped farming. He could now easily purchase all he needed, and earned five times more gambling in the stock market casino than he would earn from farming. He mortgaged his farm to secure the borrowings. He lived and consumed like the rich and famous!

When the casino collapsed, he could not maintain the lifestyle and had to resort to selling heirlooms to survive.

Until and unless the farmer starts farming and pays off his debts, he would not be able to accumulate sufficient capital to resume what was once a profitable business.

In short, the farmer like all the millions of gamblers who have been ensnared by the global casino, are now in the debt trap and being slowly dragged down to the bottom of the lake!

Therefore, pumping hundreds of billions to the banks will not solve the problem.

You can bet your last dollar that when millions are caught in the debt trap and there is no way out, and they see billions been given to the Wall Street fat cats, lynching parties will be the order of the day!

The Count Down has started.