What do Nepal and Naples have in common besides the fact that every year the postal service mis-directs thousands of letters with Nepali addressees to Napoli?
Rubbish. Yes, residents on the outskirts of Naples have stopped taking any more of the city's trash until the municipality provides them with adequate compensation. They have been burning tyres on the streets of Naples, and garbage is piling up in the tourist area. What a relief to know that they have the same problems with waste management in Italy as we have in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City.
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Comrade Awesome keeps comparing himself to Gautam Buddha. The Maoist HQ is in Buddha Nagar, the central committee meeting this week is being held at a resort in Namo Baudha and there is actually a commander with the nom de guerre of 'Comrade Siddhartha'. What's with the Buddha obsession, comrades?
We don't know if PKD brought up the matter of the eight-fold path at the Maoist central committee meeting in Kabhre this week since it was being held behind closed doors, but we are informed on good authority that he suddenly got up, looked at his watch and said: "Whoa! Completely forgot. Gotta go."
So, with Comrade Laldhoj in hot pursuit, Fearsomeness skipped the centcom to attend a Marwari Family invitation to deliver a speech. The interesting thing here is not that a Maoist leader deigned it important enough to leave a critical party meeting to attend a function organised by Nepal's premier business community, but what he told the Marwari businessmen: "The YCL can be mobilised to control the growing insecurity, extortion and abductions suffered by business sector." Do we smell a deal here?
Forever the optimist, the Ass takes all this positively. The rise in YCL extortion nationwide in the past week is the surest sign yet that the Maoists are putting together a war chest and therefore are serious about elections. Om mani padme hum.