THE TOWER OF BABEL

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.
According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating westward, comes to the land of Shinar. There they agree to build a city and a tower tall enough to reach heaven. God, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.

         - Wikipedia

It's an early conspiracy theory really.

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In Auckland the Sky City Convention Centre, also under construction has been on fire for several days. The workers on the project, several hundred, are from New Zealand and around the world and speakers of many languages - not all English.

"We were telling people, you've got to get out, the roof is on fire." But many of the foreign workers didn't appear to understand him.

          - Craig Merz - Sky City construction worker.

The cause of the fire hasn't yet been officially identified but there is anecdotal evidence that a blow torch used by one of the roofing insulation contractors had been accidentally left on. This is yet to be proven.

I however have another theory. A conspiracy theory.

Account manager Charli Farman was sitting at her desk when the fire started. She saw a man in an orange construction vest standing atop the building for about four minutes.
"Then he just ran when the flames started to spread."

     - NZ Herald report

I hope that the police are checking up on this observation made from a woman who saw the start of the fire from her vantage point in another building. This to me sounds suspicious. A conspiracy theorist like me doesn't see this as an 'act of god' and certainly not an act by that vengeful and jealous god who burnt down the tower of Babel. This seems to be an act of sabotage.

The Sky City Convention Centre is owned by Sky City which is a gambling and hospitality organisation in turn owned by Sky City Entertainment Group which owns five casino operations in Australia and New Zealand. By their nature casino operations attract a lot of interest from both legal and illegal money organisations and investors any number of whom, as competitors may benefit from any misfortune that should befall Sky City.

I mean, it has happened before.

 Las Vegas — Bombing of Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino