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• 5 Corporations Who Owe Americans Thanks This Thanksgiving Day | Death and Taxes

  Forming a corporation means never having to say you’re sorry. It’s very structure is built around the idea that no one is culpable for wrong action. However, since Citizens United vs. FEC dictated to every American citizen that corporations are people (in their totality), we think that like any good person, they should give thanks where required. Here are five corporations and banks who were either bailed out in recent years or who pay next to nothing in federal taxes.

• Dubai to star in shoot-'em-up computer game - Media - ArabianBusiness.com

  A shoot-em-up computer game which pits gamers against a hostile sandstorm-ravaged Dubai is set to be released next year, its creators have said. Publisher 2K Games said that its much anticipated military shooter Spec Ops: The Line will be released in spring 2012.

• Black Friday Walmart Shopper Injures 20 With Pepper Spray

  Pepper spray--it's not just for police any more; civilians can use it too! A woman in Los Angeles exemplified the Black Friday competitive spirit Thursday night by using it against many of her fellow shoppers, in a mad rush at a Los Angeles Wal-mart.  The Los Angeles Times reports that the suspect was trying to get first dibs on electronics that were unveiled late Thursday night (Wal-mart started Black Friday at 10 p.m. Thursday this year).

• Hydrofracking Debate Spurs Huge Spending by Industry - NYTimes.com

  Energy companies have been pouring millions of dollars into television advertising, lobbying and campaign contributions as the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo enters the final phase of deciding when and where to allow a controversial form of natural gas extraction that is opposed by environmental groups. Related Companies that drill for natural gas have spent more than $3.2 million lobbying state government since the beginning of last year, according to a review of public records

• White House 'closely monitoring' Bahrain for reforms - Politics & Economics - ArabianBusiness.com

  The White House has said it will be "closely monitoring" Bahrain's promise to carry out reforms following the publication of a report into the unrest which erupted in February. In a statement, the US President's office said it welcomed the report by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry and said King Hamad’s decision to establish the Commission was a "courageous one". 

• Emaar sees niche for low-cost housing in Dubai - Real Estate - ArabianBusiness.com

  Emaar Properties, developer of the world’s tallest building, is in talks with several UAE emirates to roll out affordable housing schemes and plans to concentrate on Dubai first, its chairman said. Despite a housing market that is widely seen as being oversupplied, Mohamed Alabbar said Dubai still has room for properties at a price point of around AED500,000 (about $136,000).

• Egypt Protests: Court Orders Release Of 3 U.S. Students, Say Egyptian Officials

  A court in Egypt has ordered the release of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo, a lawyer in Philadelphia confirmed Thursday. Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the American University in Cairo, were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Sunday. Officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters.

• Bahrain forces comb Shi'ite town before rights report - Culture & Society - ArabianBusiness.com

  Bahraini security forces chased youths in a Shi'ite town on Wednesday and one man was killed when his car was hit by a police vehicle, activists said, hours before the release of a report on the sectarian strife that has roiled the kingdom. Witnesses said riot police in 4x4 vehicles sped through the streets of Aali, outside the capital Manama, in pursuit of dozens of teenagers, before seizing one and beating him with batons as helicopters circled overhead.

• Ali Abdullah Saleh: Yemen president signs deal to step down amid Arab Spring protests

  And the Arab Spring rolls on. Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, signed an agreement to step down Wednesday after 33 years of authoritarian rule, the New York Times reports. In a surprise move, he signed an agreement “that Yemeni officials said immediately transferred power to his vice president,” the Times writes. In exchange, he received immunity from prosecution.

• Rick Santorum calls for religious profiling of Muslims in GOP debate

  Muslims in the United States should "absolutely" be subjected to religious profiling by authorities, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said at Tuesday night’s national security debate in Washington, D.C.

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