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Referring to the centralised administration of British foreign policy.

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He is using two puns, his name and the description. Dirt is nasty and shit.

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Hype up means to behave in a way that might possibly lead to confrontation. Lowkey is ambivalent about this, and almost invites possible confrontation with opponents by saying “Okay G”.

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Throwing ‘off the glass’ refers to the action in basketball of passing to one’s self via the glass of the net. This is an extremely risky venture, and something that only the elite of players have gotten away with.

Perhaps they used ‘The Force’ as Darth Vader would do if he played basketball.

You don’t want to fuck with this guy:

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Taaka vodka…

…with four fluid ounces of codeine

Because that’s how Riff rolls.

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This is slightly contentious, since the Haitian revolution was just as bloody as the French, and demonstrated just the same amount of bifurcation of practice and principle. None the less, it was a rejection of colonialism. Both names named were big roles in the Haitian revolution.

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Orthodoxy and hegemony often require certain ideologies to be adhered to. Consequently, radical ideas and thought have to be dismissed or presented as heretic or dissident in order for orthodoxy and hegemony to continue.

There are many examples of this in contemporary geo-political discourse. Norman Finkelstein, a distinguished scholar of Political Science, has been branded ‘anti-semitic’ and a ‘self hating Jew’ by zionists because of his critical views and writing on the Palestine/Israeli conflict. He is even banned from entering Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQSV3BBtZ4

editors: this is awaiting more references, so please leave for now(i can’t edit when you accept). not sure if the Norman Finkelstein stuff is relevant. <delete all this if you review it.

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On a general level, this is a reference to imperialism. See: Alexandria 1882, and the Gulf Wars, or the Bush Wars in Iraq.

The ‘sophisticated people’ refers to the ancient society Mesopotamia, often referred to as the cradle of civilisation.

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This is what the British did to Alexandria, in 1882, when they fought over control of Egypt.

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On a physical level, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This can also be applied to interaction among humans on every level.

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