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Chrysler Building has Arab owner - the horrors!

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An Abu Dhabi investment fund has bought a majority stake in New York City's landmark Chrysler Building.

A spokeswoman for Prudential Financial Inc. says the insurer sold its 75 percent stake in the Art Deco skyscraper to the Abu Dhabi Investment Council.

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The sale marked the second purchase of a Manhattan landmark by Middle East investors in as many months.

Oh noez!!!!111 Not those dirty Ay-rabs! Whatever will we do?

Clearly the terrorists are winning when investment firms buy property.

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I found this while browsing a forum where the members were griping about international outsourcing and how we'll "all need to learn Chinese because soon they'll own us." Ridiculous. Closed-minded fear-mongerers.

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