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There's no water to pump. The nearest water in sufficient quantities is in the Mekong 100 km away. But if it is pumped from the Mekong, then the electricity costs for pumping will exceed the electricity received from night releases of water.

They called hydroaccumulating power plants and for them you need that reservoir to be very high located - at night pumps move water up and and day water flow down and powering turbines, but a) they are not possible in flat Cambodia, b) they are below 30MW of power

How normal independent voters (gays) see situation. Typical discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/askgaybros/comments/1ebsnd2/why_kamala_as_someone_who_is_not_a_natural_blue/

One of 56 hydroPP in Laos: one of 18 hydroPP in Vietnam:

do you know any hydropower plant without dam? (I'm not talking now about micro hydropower plant below 30Mw)

Speculation, as usual. You can check all my answers here on the forum from the past almost 15 years. I never start talking about Russia or Putin on the forum. These words appear here when another user does not find facts to contrast with my opinion, and proceeds to discuss my personality. Exactly the same as in the post above - I also did not bring these words to this topic.

Because of fish migration, most dangerous for ecology are downstream dams: than more close to delta, then is more dangerous. And there Vietnam has 18 dams. And when you talking about "yet another" Chinese dams, you should not forget about 56 existing dams in Mekong basin on the territory of Laos.

Vietnam has 18 existing hydropower plants in Mekong basin.

Right now good tactic for reps is just sit and wait: Harris will fail herself... As soon as the invigorating effect of the novelty of Biden’s resignation, which everyone was waiting for and finally received, wears off, everyone will expect active and smart actions from Harris. Everyone knows how good she is at them (no)... so all that’s left is to just sit and wait for failure... First of all, as early as this week, she will fall into a trap between pro-Palestinian youth and pro-Israeli older generations. Then, one after another, other points of international politics will come to which she will need to respond, and her knowledge and skills in international politics are close to zero. And so it will go - without the effect of novelty, but with mistake after mistake, she will bury herself. And Blinken will not help - he has already announced that even if Harris wins, he will still resign.

Sure. Sihanoukville still has a lot of signs of formerly French "influence". Now it is time for China. That why I wrote:

As a general rule: if you have both flight in one ticket, and/or your luggage is registered from the start till the end of your final flight, then it is possible. But if your luggage is registered only till airport of transit, then usually they will ask to cross border, pickup luggage and then again to register to flight in main hall. In many airports also exists rule, if your transit time is longer than 8 hours and you don't need local visa for to leave transit zone, then they will push you to leave transit zone and register as regular passenger, esp. if 8 hours are night hours.

Well, if anyone will look at the list of military conflicts in Xxi century, this person will easy find, that China started or participated in zero military conflicts in XXI century (if not count permanent conflict with India, which UK cooked few decades ago at time of leaving India, in a pair with permanent conflict India-Pakistan), while "most democratic country in world" - US - spend no one day in current century without participating in military conflict or war... so looks like Cambodia should afraid not China...

Well, it depends... Currently Cambodia imports electricity, oil, coal and gas from Vietnam and Thailand. If dam will be constructed, TH and VN will lose money. And if speak from ecological point of view, Cambodia will burn less coal, oil and gas and produce less CO2 emission. If speak from geopolitical point of view - China is world economical leader (at least - #2) and neighborhood of small and weak Cambodia, do we have reason to wonder about Chinese influence?

Personally, I see the following: Western countries are trying to prevent the growth of Chinese influence in Cambodia and prevent a large project to build a power plant on the Mekong - a river in the basin of which there are already 26 power plants in China, 56 (!!!) power plants in Laos, 1 power plant in Myanmar, 5 power plants in Thailand, 18 power plants in Vietnam, and only one (1) power plant in Cambodia. Currently, more than 50% of Cambodia's electricity is generated by burning coal or oil. And these “activists” are protesting against the construction of a hydroelectric power station on the river, where there are already 97 other power stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower_in_the_Mekong_River_Basin They are protesting in one of the poorest countries, which is forced to constantly import electricity, which critically slows down the country's development. They are protesting against a hydroelectric dam in the country that, due to electricity shortages, has increased the burning of coal and oil to generate it by 40% over the past 10 years. Why am I not surprised that Mother Nature Cambodia is a foreign NGO, supported by foreign funds, and the leader of this organization is a 35-year-old foreigner (Spanish) who fled Cambodia before trial? And one more thing: I wonder why CNN didn’t mention that among the accusations was insulting the king? Therefore, my opinion is that these children are victims of global geopolitics, in which it is beneficial for politicians to keep Cambodia weak and dependent on Western loans and grants and away from Chinese influence.

Are we talking about "peaceful" Greta Thunberg, who been arrested and detained for public disorders and disobeying a police order 6 times in past 12 months in UK, Netherland, Sweden (twice) and Norway (twice)? Well, then we have list of 4 not free countries by version of Cambodian ‘fearless young activists’...

IMHO: "90/180" rule is implemented by MFA, but border guards aren't part of MFA and their computer system doesn't control "cumulative duration" yet, and guys on the border have no time to manually count "cumulative days", they just check overstay by latest stamp in the passport and maybe "no more than 2 border crossing by land or sea per year" rule.

Me? Please read my post again: "major Biden donor and supporter John Morgan said"

I take this your "bla-bla-bla" as "no". Thank you.

Major Biden donor says he won't fundraise for Harris if she's nominee In an interview with ABC News on Sunday night, major Biden donor and supporter John Morgan said that if Vice President Kamala Harris is the nominee, he won't fundraise for the Democratic ticket. "It's one thing to vote for somebody; it's another thing to raise millions of dollars for somebody; you have to really be in," Morgan, a high-profile Florida lawyer, told ABC News. Morgan, who says he's a "Biden/Manchin type Dem," told ABC News he was all in on Biden but felt Harris would be too far left and lose in November.

Are you writing this because you have access to Biden's medical records and saw with your own eyes that "there is no diagnosed medical condition"?

https://munich.thaiembassy.org/de/page/visaexemption Please note that a total stay of 90 days within 180 days (from the first day of entry) may not be exceeded. If a longer stay is planned, a visa must be applied for in advance. https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/84498-faq Furthermore, foreigners who enter Thailand under this Tourist Visa Exemption Scheme may re-enter and stay in Thailand for a cumulative duration of stay of not exceeding 90 days within any 6-month period from the date of first entry. https://brussels.thaiembassy.org/en/page/faq Furthermore, foreigners who enter Thailand under this Tourist Visa Exemption Scheme may re-enter and stay in Thailand for a cumulative duration of stay of not exceeding 90 days within any 6-month period from the date of first entry. So, looks like it really exists

Nope. These, who "know all to well the real Trump" are already on the dems side. Please read again my first statement - I'm talking about undecided conservative and center. All I’m trying to explain is that with Kamala and Pete, the dems risk scooping up fewer votes than will pass them by to the reps. And, by the way, I wonder why candidates should be from political aristocracy - governors, senators... clans... Why not from professionals like Blinken or Yelen?

Nope. Pure marketing. While Kamala will sell ticket to woman, Afro-Americans and Latino, and Pete will sell ticket to gays and youngsters, nobody will sell ticket to straight White Americans, especially to conservative ones. So dems will lose undecided center and that will boost reps.

With such a tandem, a significant number of undecided centrists and conservatives will move sharply to the right and the Republicans will receive a significant boost in the elections. Less on presidential ones, but definitely on parliamentary ones.

Bullshit "foreigners who enter the Kingdom under this Tourist Visa Exemption Scheme may re-enter and stay in Thailand for a cumulative duration of stay of not exceeding 90 days within any 6-month period from the date of first entry" https://www.mfa.go.th/en/publicservice/questions-answers-on-thai-visa?cate=5d5bcb4e15e39c30600068d3