From the Times of India: Is the world coming to an end?

From this inane, ridiculously ominous article in the Times of India:

Is the world coming to an end?
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Minutes after panic gripped southern India following warnings of a fresh tsunami strike on Thursday, one of India's top astrologers, Kewal Anand Joshi, warned: "It's not over yet."

"We (a group of astrologers) are currently diagnosing the calamity. There's going to be another major strike in June 2005, somewhere in the world. It will continue in 2006 and even in 2007 taking millions of lives," Joshi almost assured.
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The unsaid/unreported part:

"Of course, we must confess that our incomparably sacred knowledge did not warn us about this one; oops, as you may say, so the best we can do is apply our divya-vidya[divine knowledge] of 'prediction in advance' to making meaninglessly grand and self-important pronouncements on the future with brilliant post hoc reasoning now that we have grounds to put the fear of god and retribution into fearful, weakened, chastised souls..."

further on:

Delhi-based Tarot Card reader, Pinki Vaid, took time to make some sense out of this through her cards. "It's a sign from God," she says.

"He wants us to know that materialism means nothing if compared to the lives around us. He's giving us a sign that we must learn fast or else we'll be the cause of our own destruction."

Really? Materialism? Those poor, hardworking fishing folk who barely had 'material' to cover their heads and their backs indulged in materialism? Fie on them! Or do you mean they got punished for somebody else's materialism? In that case, that is grossly unfair, I must say...