-The Dow has fallen below 10,000 for the first time in 4 years as the stock market is in total freefall mode.-Fears are now mounting that many Wall Street banks and financial firms will actually refuse to participate in the U.S. government's $700 billion bailout package.
-Are state and local governments the next ones who will need bailouts?
-Meanwhile, the commercial paper market is imploding.
-Renowned financial reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that things could get really, really bad.
-So far the bill for all of these financial bailouts is over $17,000 per household.
-Did JP Morgan "bring down" Lehman Brothers?
-The L.A. Times is reporting that supermarket prices for 16 basic food items surged to a record in the third quarter.
-The economy of Iceland is totally collapsing.
-The police in India responsible for protecting Christians against the onslaught of Hindu violence are reportedly neglecting their duties.
-The Vatican asks why should we not talk about an "extraterrestrial brother".
-Protests got a Jews for Jesus radio ad pulled from a radio station in Israel.
-Ending on some really bad news, scientists say that now 1 in 4 mammals faces extinction.
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