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The Volcker inquiry sparked a royal commission in Australia into AWB's role as the biggest rorter of the UN programme.
HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines 2010
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Propaganda pumpin punks calling it food I think theyre confused, Killer sweet-treat deceit let-loose abuse For a fast-food attitude mad cow cash-crop mentality Growing instant gratification sewing seeds of slavery Its amping up the pace of the lab rat race The soma coma kamikaze selling pig fat as milkshakes A rorter slaughter trauma sick cows line mass graves
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Clive Peeters rorter awaits jail term A LONELY mother contributed to the collapse of retailer
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Mr Kaiser was a controversial appointment by Ms Bligh after the self-confessed vote rorter received a special $100,000 pay rise on appointment.
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LYRICS: THE BIG MAC COUNTER ATTACK [sample from Mclibel documentary] This is a Big Mac counter attack Organic fanatics are sick of being stabbed in the back with clown fat So we get phat with beat, not with the meat, And fight back with phat funk against this fast rude junk Propaganda pumpin punks calling it food I think theyre confused, Killer sweet-treat deceit let-loose abuse For a fast-food attitude mad cow cash-crop mentality Growing instant gratification sewing seeds of slavery Its amping up the pace of the lab rat race The soma coma kamikaze selling pig fat as milkshakes A rorter slaughter trauma sick cows line mass graves Serve you up a dead planet on the skin bones of slaves!
knitandpurl commented on the word rorter
the free dictionary/a> says: "a small-scale confidence trickster"
August 29, 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word rorter
""Everybody who was there knows that. But to all the other people in the world, I'm just the Cockney Queen, a bleeding rorter...""
The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman, p 281 of the 2008 Knopf paperback edition
August 29, 2011