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Sep 13, 2026

路德HOST
80:48
纠正一下,在王室啊,英——欧洲大多数王室啊,皇室很少啊。我们再说一下啊,你看啊,大家有没有发现一个,很有——有没有发现一个细微的,比如说加拿大,全程是啊,你叫爱尔兰,叫爱尔兰共和国,啊,台湾叫中华民国,Republic of China,爱尔兰叫爱尔兰共和,Republic of Ireland,印度叫印度共和国,就是法定的国名是这个。加拿大法定名字就是加拿大,没有说 Republic of Canada或者,呃,民主加拿大。澳大利亚叫澳大利亚联邦,啊,新西兰就一个词,新西兰。哎,印度,啊它独立,它叫印度共和国。巴基斯坦,独立,名字叫,啊,巴基斯坦伊斯兰共和国。看明白这个细微的区别没有?就是告诉你,实际上就是,啊,就是加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰,它其实更像是个地名,明白不?就是地理空间名,不是一个国名。为啥?因为它根本——他说,啊,这宪法上写的 King of Canada。看到没有?它主权来自于 King of Canada,而不是这个地理空间。就是,以——说,说吧,啥意思?就是加拿大、澳洲和新西兰,它在早期的设计时候就已经考虑,它不可能叫 King of Republic of Canada。它实际上现在加拿大其实就是一个地理空间名,就跟说,啊,你是哪里,是吧?比如说,啊,什么什么广州,是不是?是一个地理空间名。广州,你有没有听过说 Republic of 广州?没有。广州,广州,啊,最多加个 city,是不是?啊。对,你不会说,啊,某个,啊比如说纽约,纽约市,你不会在纽约市前面加一个 Republic of 纽约市,啊,纽约市一个共和市,纽约共和州,纽约,对,state。这是啥?啥意思?其实就这三个地方,它是一个地名,地名变成国名,但是实际上它政治属性,说白了,它就是属于 king 的,King of Canada。所以这里头,就它在最早在设,设计的时候,它已经考虑到这了,考虑到这了。所以,你看它这个文件重点是啥?北爱尔兰是不仅仅是要独立,而且要解体英国。解体英国,其实英国,英国是啥?就是它的主体制,解体所谓的英国是英国这个体制,就是君主立宪,说白了就是一切归 king,懂不懂?是所有的都是 king 授权给大家,给底下,它要解体这个体制。其实它只要一解体,这个说白了,就加拿大,啊,澳洲,对,未来就你的,你的主权在哪?就是英国,是吧,叫 kingdom, kingdom 的主权是在 king 上,它不是 republic,就是告诉大家,republic 的主权是在人民,对吧,king 的主权是在 king 上,明白吗?就 king 的 them,是吧。所以,对,就这意思,它这个解体,它只要一旦说,啊,是吧,解体一旦通过,加拿大、澳洲、新西兰都会从英——说白了,就从 kingdom 这个解体出来。因为你如果你没有 king 作为你的主权的话,因为你必须有个主权,懂不懂?主权在民还是主权在王。现在说白了,这个加拿大、澳洲,它,对,它是叫宪政,但宪政是宪政,宪政得有个主权,就是主体在哪里?Kingdom 是在 king 上。明白逻辑不?啊,所以就告诉你就接下来什么英国、加拿大都会——这表面上是对着苏格兰、威尔士、北爱尔兰的,实际上 英国,说白了就是澳洲、加拿大和新西兰。你看很,很明显,世界上所有国家,哪个国家不有一个到底,前面啊,叫朝鲜民主社会主义民主共和国是吧?然后越南社会主义什么什么,它怎么的你得有加个东西前面,就是告诉你,你这里到底是属于啥的,是吧?你是共和制还是社会主义?对。因为这啥?这是,啊,所谓的国体。加拿大,你看澳洲啥都没有,就加拿大,加拿大。澳洲,澳大利亚什么领,那什么联邦,是不是?新西兰,没有任何的啊,到底是Republic还是说Kingdom。它也不能叫加拿大Kingdom,它为啥不能叫?啊,因为你是King的一个领地而已,不是有单独有个单独的King。所以啊,这里头后手牌还是这个。说白了就告诉你,他为啥要把这个解体,要通通英国,你看英文是 the break up of the United Kingdom。看到没有?United Kingdom啊。联合王国。咱这翻译得不对啊,不是,不能叫英国,叫联合王国。你,你要知道这联合王国包括哪些,啊,联合王国。你就知道这张牌能打多深,是不是?猫博士分享下。
莫博士GUEST
87:08
对的,这是一个很强烈的警告信息。我们就是,我们曾经学英语的时候好像说的就是美,英国,其实我们说是英国,实际是大不列颠联合王国,对吧?实际上,实际上应该我记得是有四支,对吧?英格兰、苏格兰、爱尔兰和威尔士。那么这里面联合王国构成了英国皇室体系的根基,包括英联邦国家都是这个体系中的一份子。那么核心的地区出现了,那么这里面有一个非常关键的东西,就是感觉美国这次对英国的出手并没有,或者是对英国整个体系的,呃,这个出手和应对并不是流于表面。什么叫做流于表面?美国有足够的在英国的体系的什么盟友和东西。大家知道英国,对,是你皇室说了算。但是美国这些年跟英国作为英美盟友,互相交织的实力和渗透和大家之间的体系绝对是什么?你中有我,我中有你。英国绝对有大量的亲美体系的。但这次亲美体系出现了什么?巨大的什么失误,就是什么?英国以皇室为,皇室为体的主,传统体系全面从美国的盟友倒向了中共国,才会出现现在的局面。那么这就知道大家看过很多,一个就是说最早的这个,呃,非常有名的一个好莱坞的电影,对吧?就是那个,呃,吉布森演的,呃,吉布森演的那个爱尔兰当时的这个自由的之战,其实显示了英国的体系在最早的时候,它并不是铁板一块。爱尔兰、苏格兰还有威尔士实际上跟英格兰从在的时候,在自由还有认知和领土上面都有存在着一定的分歧。但是随着二战过程中,由于英国和英国皇室起的作用,大家默认为我们有共同的目标,很多叫做地域性和民族性的分歧实际上是搁置了,大家都是什么,在共同的认知下有自己的发展,所以形成了联合王国,大不列颠联合王国。但是这个时候,在联合王国对美国来说是一个天然的盟友,美国非常放心。但是随着现代开始,这个大不列颠联合王国中的主要分支的英格兰的皇室,大家要知道,这里面实际上核心是什么?英格兰的皇室就是什么?我们说的英国皇室体系实际上走入了一种歧途,跟中共深刻地勾兑,放弃了什么?大不列颠自己的荣耀。说得我们叫做戏剧性一点,就是什么?现在的英国皇室更看重钱和特权,而远非自己的皇室和以前的协议和荣耀。他自己把背叛了自己以前的皇室和荣耀和什么信誉。那么对,这时候对其他的联合王国来说,就是一个致命的险则。以前我们认为你是联合王国的皇室,我们尊敬你,甚至认你为什么国家的首,呃,这个联盟的首相和联盟的门主。但是你这个门主现在被贪欲、被特权所蒙蔽的时候,其他国家有没有权利争夺回自己的权益,甚至投票罢免掉这个门主?我觉得现在美国抓住了一个关键点,对吧?英国的这关键就是当你不能再什么。 代表和什么?显示整个地区和联合王国的利益的时候,那么有一种方式就是你下台,别人上来。还有一种方式,你自己的这个架构已经是什么?核心已经是碎裂了,那么你就要什么?分裂和什么?分崩离析。这是一个核心。这就是美国现在做出一个很强的回应。英国皇室仍然认为,即使自己选择的再错,啊即使再怎么样的,啊,再差的情况下,至少美国没有能力对它的核心进行对抗。就是我是一个落魄的贵族,但是我再落魄也不是美国你这种新兴富豪所能代替的。大家有没有看过一个中共的电影,叫做《那武》,啊,当时是冯巩演的,就是八旗子弟,那种落魄的贵族形象,仍然什么?在这个世态,这个发展过程中,坚守着自己所谓非常可笑的那种贵族的心识。但是对于历,在历史面前和在历史的推动面前,这些都是什么?会被轻易地碾碎的。英国的皇室其实有一点点这种方式。美国在用一种强硬的方式显示,如果你在现在历史文明的这种发展中选错了道路,那么你被历史的车轮碾碎就是非常正常和什么?非常合理的结果。好的,路德。你看之前印度啊,啊,在英国,英属印度的时候,它就一个名字叫印度,或叫 In-India of,啊,叫做,英国的当时名字就是 India 或者 British India,啊,就是一个地名。南非也是,就是一个,要么就是 Cape Colony,南非,南,Cape 殖民地,啊,都不叫南非,就是个地名,啊。一九一零年的时候,四地组成南非联邦,它是前面没有加 Republic,都没加的啊,但是,啊,英国君主,就一九一零年到一九六一年,南非独立之前,那叫,啊,就是一个地名,Union of South Africa。就像美国啊,地下哪个州是吧,哪个地方,啊,加州,对,你不可能加州前面再加 Republic,是不是?所以,所以现在加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰,它其实就是个地名而已,我得告诉你。就个,就是一个相当于一个州的名字,只不过它的体制和美国不一样,啊,美国不一样。所以,重大区别就在这里。这就是告诉大家啊,这就是,这个大不列颠啊,你看,它,它叫联合王国,它没说解体大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国,而是解体整个联合王国。这里头,你要知道啊,联合王国包括啥?因为大不列颠是讲的,你看这个图就是什么叫大不列颠,你看这个啊,大不列颠,就是英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士,就大不列颠,加北爱尔兰,看见没有?大不,不列颠群岛是英格兰、苏格兰,啊,是吧,英格兰、苏格兰,加威尔士。爱尔兰呢,不叫大不列颠岛,啊,不叫大不列颠群岛,它叫不列颠群岛。大不列颠是啥?以前啊,在爱尔兰独立之前是加上爱尔兰,就是大不列颠及爱尔兰联合王国。就是这里,这几个地方联合起来的联合王国。但英国、法国那没加进去。啊,英国,[笑] 不,不,就是加拿大、澳洲和新西兰没加进。你如果按原,按原理上的这个推理就是,那里其实就是,啊,加拿大联合王国,因为全程应该是这个,就联合王国下面的加拿大,联合王国下面的,啊,就 United Kingdom 下面的新西兰,联合王国下面的,啊,爱尔兰。它是个这逻辑。它现在是解体整个联合王国,就你联合王国都要解体,而不仅仅是解体现在的大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国。明白这逻辑不?英国,因为它以前还叫做大英帝国,你知道有这个词。什么叫大英帝国?啊,你们去查查,British,啊,Empire。British Empire 是没有这个法律的,啊,国号的名字的。它是啊,就是大不列颠,就,及爱尔兰联合王国,再加上印度、加拿大,那别,这些名字啊,它都不是国体的名字,是直接就地区名。加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰、印度,后来印度变成印度,啊,印度叫做,变成了,[咳嗽] 叫做,这个,印度帝国,Empire of India。但是维多利亚是印度女皇,就,你看,印度它如果是个地区名字的话,这叫 India。印度是个国名的话,之前叫 Empire of India,啊,就是你印度和英国,啊,和就是这大不列颠这个
路德HOST
97:28
个W点英国是独立的,但是你的皇是谁?英,印度女皇是维多利亚女皇。一九四七年以后,[咳嗽]在年之前,印度是叫印度自治领,啊,Dominion of India。现在独立以后叫Republic of India。所以加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰它不是一个独立国家,就告诉你,它就是 United Kingdom 的一个领地。就跟美国是叫 United States,底下有这么多州是吧?这个州,这个州,这个州,每个州就只是一个名字而已。加拿大,啊,就比如说加州 California,对。所以现在[咳嗽]关于加拿大,啊,加入美国或者啥,实际上是从英国弄过来,明白不?就英王只要说,呀,United Kingdom 解体,加拿大它就,就是,就不是一个国号了,它就是一个领地了。千万不,呃,就是你要从严格的法律角度讲这事,懂不懂?不要从你的所谓的政治那角度讲,它就立马你加拿大你得有一个,就你自然你就没有王了,没有王了,你这个所有的宪法就已经没了,你是吧。啊,支撑体已经没了,那你必须得加拿大到底,啊,说白了底下几个州,啊加拿大几个省,就各自,啊,选择了,是吧?你就各自选择了,是吧?你,你比如说你加拿大几个省能不能凑在一起叫个加拿大共和国,那共和国,共和国的玩法是吧?和你现在完全玩法不是一个玩法了,你加拿大问题很大啊。啊,小土豆十几年是不是,啊,左得很,当首相现在上来又一个又是左派的,就等于说你完全失去了,你要知道两党轮替的中央形式上你是自查、自检、自我优化的一个必需品,明白不?你完全失去了自我内部检查的这个机制,等于说你这个机制是有问题的,你不可能再延续下去了,你必须得改了,换了。由于加拿大就在美国边上,极其危险,万一加拿大和中共搞在一起,所以川普不到爱尔兰不去走这步棋。说白了,就是因为加拿大说跟中共搞军事合作,川普直接到爱尔兰,让你整个 United Kingdom 解体,明白不?啊,United Kingdom 解体,就是加拿大、澳洲、新西兰、位列的法体结构就没了,啊,以后加拿大就不是只是一个加拿大一个地名了,一定前面得加一个,你到底是 Republic 还是啥,啊,还是啥,是吧?你再也不是属于在 United Kingdom 了。
Steven GoldmanHOST
43:49
German administrators attempted to establish a single, amorphous African working class bereft of, and indeed prohibited from having, an ethnic and cultural identity beyond that deemed acceptable to the colonial state.
Steven GoldmanHOST
44:04
Lands cleared of African occupants were allocated as ranch lands to German settlers, many of whom had served as soldiers in the Herero and Nama wars." And then they found diamonds, and they weren't going to let it go regardless, and didn't, until the Union of South Africa invaded as part of the First World War and kicked them out.
Steven GoldmanHOST
44:24
As far as von Trotha's policy, here I'll quote an eyewitness passage reproduced in the book Genocide in Southwest Africa: The Colonial War in Namibia and Its Aftermath.
Steven GoldmanHOST
44:35
"I followed their tracks, and came upon a number of water holes which were a terrible sight.
JamesHOST
40:19
[laughs]
Dan CorderHOST
40:20
So, uh, my very loose understanding of it is the way it worked was Hertzog was a politician, uh, during the 1920s, and Smuts had just formed the Union of South Africa, and there was a vote around the Constitution and the agreement of, like, what is, like, the answer to the, quote-unquote, "Native question." Um, and, uh, according to this article, in the Western Cape, colored men could vote.
Dan CorderHOST
40:51
So Hertzog was trying to court the colored vote, and also an opposition to Smuts, try and present an al- uh, try and present, like, an alternate to the dominant position.
Dan CorderHOST
41:06
So he was promising that women would get the right to vote under his leadership, but also colored women c- would get the vi- right to vote.
Dan CorderHOST
41:59
It's, it's nice to have, like, a clear delineation, like this is the official record, even though I'm sure some people will dispute it because of, like, common law and stuff.
Dan CorderHOST
42:07
That's super interesting.
Dan CorderHOST
42:08
So just a reminder for everyone who doesn't know, Hertzog was a Boer commander during the Second South African War that ultimately formed- Uh, I mean, the consequence w- of it, of it was the Union of South Africa that was formed in 1910.
Dan CorderHOST
42:21
And he actually became prime minister of the country, and he was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1924 until 1939.
Norman CorwinNARRATOR
24:55
Mr. Nehru spoke at length of India's problems, which he said were not formed suddenly, but were the accumulation of more than a hundred years.
Norman CorwinNARRATOR
25:02
He had bitter words for the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa, whose racial policy he called, quote, exactly on a par with Nazi doctrine, unquote.
Norman CorwinNARRATOR
25:12
I asked him whether there was goodwill in India for the United States, and he replied,
Jawaharlal NehruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
25:16
America is... a country which attracts for many reasons.
Dez LathamHOST
6:23
why would the rothschilds help the transvaal when he was plainly ante and burial in a bizarre twist in our tale the rothschilds you see were aggressively pursuing gold-mining interests in the transvaal by buying shares in werner baat co and other prominent mining assets at the time the baat mining operations were the largest of its kind on the verdwatersrand and necessitated heavy machinery only accessible by a rail we will hear more about this deal in a few minutes This was of course a direct threat to the imperialists inside the Cape government, of which Rhodes was the ringleader, along with Gordon Sprigg, the Cape Prime Minister.
Dez LathamHOST
6:59
They began to play the Union of South Africa card.
Dez LathamHOST
7:03
All people of the region would only be advantaged by a line from the Cape, they said.
Dez LathamHOST
7:07
Anything else, i.e. a line from Lorenzo Marx, represented a threat to commerce.
Johnny CopelynGUEST
26:16
You, you know, all these ideas that people have, they, they sort of, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, right? O-one of our so-called failures was, um...
Johnny CopelynGUEST
26:26
There was a bank called Unibank, and it was, I presume Uni came from the Union of South Africa or something like that, but U-Uni for us was, was a good name.
Johnny CopelynGUEST
26:36
And, um, uh, the guy in charge of it, uh, had this idea that he would like to develop Unibank as a Robin Hood bank.
Johnny CopelynGUEST
26:46
Most banks take deposits from salaried people, working people, and they lend to the rich, and he wanted to build his bank on a basis of taking deposits from the rich and lending to the poor.
Makhele MabasoGUEST
58:15
It's a migration.
Makhele MabasoGUEST
58:17
Remember, let me also share about, that was I think in the 80s, 90s when South Africa before, I think it was South African Union at that time, not South Africa because they were colonizing it.
Makhele MabasoGUEST
58:34
There was this certain spirit that was not in South Africa.
Makhele MabasoGUEST
58:38
Maybe it's Amanda.
Chuck SpahnNARRATOR
5:35
A few years ago, I went all round the British Empire delivering addresses on imperial organization.
Chuck SpahnNARRATOR
5:42
When I state that these lectures were followed almost immediately by the Union of South Africa, the Banana Riots in Trinidad, and the Turco-Italian War, I think the reader can form some idea of their importance.
Chuck SpahnNARRATOR
5:56
In Canada, I belong to the Conservative Party, but as yet I have failed entirely in Canadian politics.
Chuck SpahnNARRATOR
6:02
never having received a contract to build a bridge or make a wharf, nor to construct even the smallest section of the transcontinental railway.
speaker_4NARRATOR
6:22
The UK also viewed the southern and eastern coasts as essential locations for stopover ports along the maritime routes to Asia and India.
speaker_4NARRATOR
6:31
Despite these economic motivations, European nations invested relatively small amounts of capital in the majority of Africa, with the notable exception of the area that became the Union of South Africa in 1910.
speaker_4NARRATOR
6:47
Pro-imperialist lobbyists, including figures such as Jules Ferry and Francesco Crispi, argued that these overseas markets were the solution to low prices and overproduction in Europe.
speaker_4NARRATOR
7:00
historians have debated the exact link between capitalism and imperialism, with some arguing that colonialism was primarily a tool for state-led development rather than purely corporate interests.
Gareth CliffHOST
5:59
I can't help myself, so here's a short history lesson.
Gareth CliffHOST
6:03
The Union of South Africa, with our current borders, was assembled in 1910 under the British Imperial Order from four very different colonies and former Boer republics.
Gareth CliffHOST
6:13
It enclosed people whose languages, histories, and political interests were never identical.
Gareth CliffHOST
6:19
A Khoisan community in the Northern Cape, an Afrikaner farming town, a Zulu traditional authority, and a Santon entrepreneur may share a passport, but that's pretty much all they share.

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