Myanmar Omen; Day’s of the Junta regime are numbered

Sad this Pagoda collapsed, but perhaps that is a message for the Junta, that their day’s are numbered! 

You can’t indiscriminately kill people, or spiritual leaders, for speaking out, and then remodel a Pagoda expecting to cleans your Karma, that’s not the way it works.  Doing good just to try and cleans your dirtiness doesn’t clean your karma, in fact it would probably make it worse because it’s not happening for the right reasons.  Murdering all those people just so you can be the ruller of Burma, that’s blood on your’s and your family’s hands.  That’s a millinium of dirty karma on your hands.

An Ancient Pagoda’s Collapse Turns Myanmar’s Gaze to the Stars

It cannot have pleased Myanmar’s ruling family: the collapse of a 2,300-year-old gold-domed pagoda into a pile of timbers just three weeks after the wife of the junta’s top general helped rededicate it.

There is no country in Asia more superstitious than Myanmar, and the crumbling of the temple was seen widely as something more portentous than shoddy construction work.

The debacle coincides with the junta’s trial of the country’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, after an American intruder swam across a lake and spent a night at the villa where Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for most of the past 19 years.

After two weeks of testimony that began May 18, the trial has been suspended as the court considers procedural motions — and as the junta apparently tries to decide how to manage what seems to have been a major blunder, drawing condemnation from around the world.

The superstitious generals may be consulting astrologers as well as political tacticians for guidance. That would not be unusual for many people in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

Previously, currency denominations and traffic rules have been changed, the nation’s capital has been moved and the timing of events has been selected — even the dates of popular uprisings — with astrological dictates in mind.

“Astrology has as significant a role in policies, leadership and decision making in the feudal Naypyidaw as rational calculations, geopolitics and resource economics,” said Zarni, a Burmese exile analyst and researcher who goes by one name. He was referring to the country’s fortified capital, which opened in 2005. [see full article on the collapse of Burma's ancient pagoda]