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pakje said:

VVER's are gonna be wildy more unpopular everywhere and that includes countries like India, which is already avoiding buying russian weapons because of CAATSA sanctions. Only country left willing to buy will be China and luckily for Russian it's also the one country that can absorb most if not all of its supply

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Temstar said:

I went to look up the expected US July CPI to see if it could offer any clues on why Biden would do a more that will almost certainly cost his party the midterm, and oh boy, yeah it's bad:

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That's after 75 basis point rise last month. With -2.1% real GDP "growth" expected for 2nd quarter thus meeting technical definition of a recession I'm starting to see why.

What else is he going to do increase the interest by 1%? While they have 28 trillion in national debt?

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zhangjim said:

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So, who knows Japanese?
This website seems to be a list of constitutional amendments and potential dangers cited by the opposition.
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So I can only paraphrase the Chinese content.
Some people think the most important are the article 9, 97, 98 and 99.I will try to translate some of the content that I think is important. If there are those who are better at Japanese, please provide more objective content.
Article 9,"the government's determination not to wage war" is deleted.
Article 20, the words "religious groups shall not enjoy state privileges and exercise political rights" are changed to "shall not enjoy state privileges", allowing religious groups to exercise political rights.
Article 47, the voting method of election and each elected member is changed from administrative division to population division, and the "difference of one vote" is constitutional.
Article 56, the restriction of "voting is invalid when the number of people present does not exceed 1/3" was deleted.
Article 66, the prime minister and the Minister of state of the cabinet must be civil servants instead of active servicemen, that is, veterans can serve as prime ministers and ministers of state.
Paragraph 2 of Article 83, the constitution formally stipulates to maintain permanent deflation.
Article 96 after voting on the proposal, more than 2/3 of the votes agree that the proposal is passed, and more than half of the votes agree that the proposal is passed.
Article 97, "the Constitution guarantees the basic human rights of the Japanese people" is deleted in its entirety.
Article 98: the prime minister can declare a state of emergency directly at the cabinet meeting. When declaring a state of emergency, the decree issued by the cabinet has the same effect as the existing laws. Anyone must accept the instructions of the state or other public institutions in relevant situations.
Article 99: the emperor, that is, state public officials, has the obligation to respect and defend the constitution. All citizens have the obligation to respect and defend the constitution. The emperor's power officially exceeds the constitution.

Although it is only a draft, it is far more radical than we thought,maybe we will soon hear "tenouheika, banzai".

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ACuriousPLAFan said:

Do you have the link to the Chinese translated article on the constitutional amendment posted above?

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Sardaukar20 said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1546329061693087746

'Dr' Subramanian Swamy. 'Mr Superpower India' himself is saying that India declined from 3rd fastest growing economy in 2011 to 164th fastest in 2021. 164th among 193 countries. His tweet has some grammatical errors, but that is expected for a cow dung 'Dr' like him. I'll let that pass.

When 'Mr Superpower India' himself is lamenting about the decline of the Indian economy, you kinda know that the Indian economy is not doing well. That celebration day for India Superpower overtaking China is gonna have to wait again. Maybe the next decade, or the next century. Who knows.

P.S.: 'Dr' Subramanian Swamy is one of those pro-American Jai Hinds. He appeared a few times on those rightwing American fringe media. His view is that India should break away from Russia and fully prostitute itself to the US to destroy China. That is why I think he has a problem with Modi these days.

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Crang said:

Genuinely, Dr. Swamy on suicide watch please.

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Of course, they now call it medically assisted death or euthanasia or whatever the boba liberals call them.

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3rd largest in PPP valuation of GDP. 164th in per capita income.

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