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Michael Voris Is Now Working With A Fascist, Steve Bannon

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Years ago, Michael Voris started working with an advocate for pederasty named Milo Yiannopoulos, and today he is working with a fascist named Steve Bannon. So, this doesn’t really surprise me:
The spirit of Jacobinism is alive and well in the political atmosphere of the globe. Steve Bannon just declared that both Fauci and FBI Director Chris Wray should be beheaded, their heads stuck on pikes and placed on display on the two corners of the White House. As we read in <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-muses-about-beheading-dr-anthony-fauci-and-fbi-director-chris-wray-in-podcast">the Daily Beast</a>:
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On his podcast Thursday, former Trump aide Steve Bannon, who somehow thinks Donald Trump has won the election, said that a second term shouldn’t just start with firing FBI Director Chris Wray and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on national TV. According to him, it should involve beheadings.
“I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats,” he said. “You either get with the program or you’re gone. Time to stop playing games. Blow it all up, put Ric Grenell today as the interim head of the FBI, that’ll light them up, right?”
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Bannon implicitly called for civil war by comparing public beheadings to what was done in the American Revolution and saying that the latter was a civil war:
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That’s how you won the revolution. No one wants to talk about it. The revolution wasn’t some sort of garden party, right? It was a civil war. It was a civil war.
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Since he is equating what he envisions to the American Revolution and calls it a civil war, he is essentially calling for a civil war and a revolution. What this shows is that revolution — when it is not considered as done and ceased to the current establishment — will inspire others to cause more revolution. But what kind of revolution does Bannon want?
What Bannon is saying here is a reflection of the revival of the spirit of the French Revolution in which mass beheadings and drownings by the hundreds of thousands were committed in public view. This spirit is gradually transpiring into the new zeitgeist. What we are dealing with are not ‘conservatives’ in the conventional sense of the word, but really modern form of liberalism masqueraded with “tradition”. This is the evil ideology that Bannon is inculcating in the world.
The mentality of Bannon is that most ruinous way of thinking that screams for the utter destruction of whatever it doesn’t like. Bannon wants to tear down the current way of governance in Europe and have it replaced with a system of his own doing. The American professor Ronald Radosh <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-trumps-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist">recalls</a> a private conversation in which Bannon told him that he was in fact a Leninist and wants to destroy the state:
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I met Steve Bannon—the executive director of Breitbart.com who’s now become <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/08/18/how-donald-trump-s-new-hire-finally-killed-gop-unity.html">the chief executive of the Trump campaign</a>, replacing the <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/08/17/paul-manafort-failed-to-tame-donald-trump-and-now-it-s-going-to-get-real.html">newly resigned Paul Manafort</a>—at a book party held in his Capitol Hill townhouse on Nov. 12, 2013. We were standing next to a picture of his daughter, a West Point graduate, who at the time was a lieutenant in the 101 Airborne Division serving in Iraq. The picture was notable because she was sitting on what was once Saddam Hussein’s gold throne with a machine gun on her lap. “I’m very proud of her,” Bannon said.
Then we had a long talk about his approach to politics. He never called himself a “populist” or an “American nationalist,” as so many think of him today. “I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed.
Shocked, I asked him what he meant.
“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Bannon was employing Lenin’s strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press.
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So there you have it. All of these Americans who think Bannon is some hero are in fact getting played by someone who takes inspiration from Vladimir Lenin. He in fact is supporting another Lenin, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as “Tommy Robinson.” Since his real last name is Lenon, lets call him that instead of his pseudonym. Lenon, like Bannon, is a provocateur who enjoys stirring up the pot for attention and causing mayhem. <a href="https://shoebat.com/2018/11/19/tommy-robinson-joins-major-organizations-that-want-to-destroy-christianity-promote-homosexuality-human-sacrifice-and-terrorism/">Lenon collaborates with some pretty nefarious people, like Martin Sellner the leader of the pagan, pro-homosexual and racialist Austrian Identitarians.</a> He has ties with <a href="https://shoebat.com/2018/10/01/major-german-politician-declares-the-messiah-of-germany-is-sleeping-in-a-cave-and-when-he-awakens-he-will-save-germany-and-revive-the-reich/">the German nationalists</a>, such as the eugenist AfD party and Compact Magazine which is ran by Jurgen Elsasser, an activist and ideologue of the Identitarians. The AfD party has a eugenic ideology within itself. For example, its former leader Frauke Petry (who resigned as the party’s candidate for chancellor because she was too “moderate”) spoke about a future “darwinist’ war in Germany between Whites and ‘Afro-Arabians’, as we read in a report from<a href="https://www.thelocal.de/20161006/afd-leader-under-fire-for-saying-diverse-lands-are-like-compost-heap"> the Local</a>:
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Petry gave a speech in Stuttgart on Monday for German Unity Day in which she predicted a “Darwinistic” conflict between Europe’s residing “transfer payment recipients” and immigrants from the “lumpenproletariat Afro-Arabian world,” the <a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/afd-chefin-frauke-petry-verraeterin-des-abendlandes-14467440.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</a> (FAZ) reported.
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Bannon at one point in time set his priority on helping Trump get elected (his former website, Breitbart, did quite an efficient job in disseminating information to help with the Republican campaign). But now he has been fixated on Europe and shifting the political disposition to the advantage of the nationalists. After the November Congressional elections in the United States, Bannon <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-politics-bannon-catholics/steve-bannon-drafting-curriculum-for-right-wing-catholic-institute-in-italy-idUSKCN1LU176">told</a> Reuters that he would spend “80-90 percent” of his efforts on the political situation in Europe. Which means that Bannon and his ilk are currently trying very hard — with the same energy that they exerted for Trump — to dramatically alter the ideological condition of the Europeans towards a philosophically more tribalist mentality.
Bannon has been raising funds for his and his ally, Benjamin Harnwell’s, organization Dignitatis Humanae Institute (the Institute for Human Dignity) in both Europe and the United States, but one can assume, without being far-fetched — that the majority (if not, a greatly substantial amount) of the funds are coming from Americans. One American organization, the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, which has spent over £1.3m in Europe since 2008, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/us-fundamentalists-spent-38m-on-european-politics">financed</a> a conference in Italy with the Dignitatis Humanae Institute.
The Action Institute was founded by Robert A. Sirico and Kris Alan Mauren. Mauren is tied with the Calvinist theistic evolutionist organization, the John Templeton Foundation, of which <a href="https://shoebat.com/2018/10/10/major-protestant-organization-the-john-templeton-foundation-is-financing-and-funding-eugenics-and-a-sinister-scientist-who-is-using-aborted-fetuses-for-human-experimentation/">shoebat.com</a> has shown to be Darwinist and a funder for eugenist projects, such as the Epigenetics Literacy Project (ELP) which is ran by Jon Entine, a Jewish American eugenist.  Mauren is a director for or or an advisory board for the John Templeton Foundation, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and Templeton Religion Trust. What is the founder of a Catholic organization doing working for a major supposedly Protestant and yet eugenist organization? 
The Acton Institute is tied to the eugenist Sarah Scaife Foundation. From 2012 to 2015, the Acton Foundation <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Acton_Institute#Funding">received</a> $240,000 from the Sarah Scaife Foundation (you can see details of the funding for Acton <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/org/acton-institute-for-the-study-of-religion-and-liberty/">here</a>). The Sarah Scaife Foundation was founded by the oil billionaire <a href="https://shoebat.com/2017/07/02/how-the-anti-islam-movement-was-created-by-the-cia-and-very-powerful-eugenist-elites-to-advance-nazism-eugenics-paganism-and-genocidal-ideology/">Richard Mellon Scaife, a eugenist</a> who was close to Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger and a pusher for supporting abortion within conservative circles. In the study of the roots of many of these types of nationalistic and right-wing think tank organizations, one will find the name of Scaife lingering about. Scaife was the financial founder of major Right-wing think tanks, such as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute (one of the biggest lobbyist entities for the Iraq War) and the Center for Security Policy which organized the 2007 Counterjihad Summit in Brussels, the meeting that would commence the Counterjihad as a significant international movement.
Scaife also served as the vice-chairman for the Heritage Foundation, which he had financially established. Scaife, while supporting the Heritage Foundation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife">donated </a>millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion advocates. What this proves is that a pro-abortionist was the financier behind these think-tanks, and by this, behind the institutions that would direct the formation of the Counterjihad. So here we have a link between the eugenists and the Right-wing entities that are pushing for nationalist ideas. To shed further light on this coven of roaches who hide under the shade of patriotism, the Sarah Scaife Foundation has given millions of dollars to organizations like the Center for Immigration Studies and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Center for Immigration Studies was founded by the major eugenist, John Tanton, whose think-tank is the main influencer for all groups, activists and politicians who are critical of lenient immigration policy. 
The heir to the Scaife fortune is Cordelia Scaife May whose almost $1 billion operation — the Colcom Foundation — <a href="https://splinternews.com/the-eugenicist-doctor-and-the-vast-fortune-behind-trump-1827322435">bankrolls</a> Tanton’s immigration centric network. This financing is not insignificant or petty. Between 2010 and 2015, the Colcom Foundation put $72.5 million into the Tanton network. In 2015 alone, according to financial filings, the Colcom Foundation donated at least $19.2 million to the Tanton network, including $7.4 million to its flagship organization, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, amongst the largest of the organizations negative to current day immigration policy.
The Acton Institute and its financial backings, and its ties with Bannon and his activity in Europe, demonstrate the link between the organizations that are very negatively focused on immigration, eugenics and the current day nationalist craze that is ever increasing in intensity. It would be unwise to pretend that such activists are confined within the realm of just working against certain immigration policies, and do not ever overlap with pro-abortion (infanticide) activity for the cause of eugenics.
We can see here a plan, done with years of work, for a mechanism being used — through very influential voices — to attract conservatives to accept progressivist ideology and to reshape the conservative movement to be on par with what conservatives have fought against. So if the two are the same, then the eugenist agenda of progressives can indeed influence Western policies. This is being done through a fixation on immigration as a way to get people to see immigrants as a problem to be solved by despotic measures of population control.
Years ago, before Tanton set up his organizations, he was lobbying for Planned Parenthood and even set up a Planned Parenthood clinic in northern Michigan. He would also approach new mothers in maternity wards to tell them about how they should not have any more children.
For years Steve Bannon has been working for the cause of Hindu nationalism. This is obvious for the fact that Bannon has been collaborating with Indian-American industrialist and Hindu nationalist Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar, a Hindu lobbyist who, alongside members of his family, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalabh_Kumar#Trump_%2410_million_Hindu_campaign">donated</a> over a million dollars to Trump Victory, who also lobbies for the Hindu nationalist political party, the BJP. 
In May of 2019 Bannon did an interview with India’s WION TV channel, in which he praised India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi. He boasted about how he has been promoting Modi for years:
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“When Modi first won five years ago I was very proud of the fact that Breitbart … we covered that election very closely and the reason was, the day he won we put a headline that he was India’s Reagan. And I have been incredibly impressed with Modi since the first day I heard of him and started following him in Indian politics.”
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Bannon wants to see a coalition against China consisting of Trump in the United States, the Hindu nationalist Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and the Japanese nationalist Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe (the same Abe who <a href="https://shoebat.com/2015/12/21/japan-sets-up-two-hundred-major-missile-launchers-across-870-miles-of-ocean-and-point-them-toward-chines/">said</a> that Japanese comfort women centers — where women were raped by Japanese soldiers — “were simply part of the licensed prostitution system of the day.”) He sees these three as a part of an international network of nationalist leaders (ironic how nationalists go internationalist simultaneously) also consisting of politicians like Matteo Salvini in Italy:
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“If this thing’s [China] going to be pushed back on, its gotta be Japan, India and the United States. Those are the three most important nations to do this. … And when I look at on our side of the football, and I see Abe in Japan, Modi in India, Trump in the United States, and people like Nigel Farage coming up in the UK, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Bolsanaro in Brazil … and the three most important: Abe in Japan, Modi in India, and Trump in the United States, are the type of men that can really put together I think a very impressive coalition.”
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But the most interesting part of this interview was Bannon’s fascination for Hinduism. The interviewer asked him:
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“I am told you are an avid reader of the Bhagavad Gita, you follow the Hindu philosophy. I’m very curious to know, what got you so interested in Hindu mythology?”
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To this Bannon said:
“Yes, thats true. One of the most powerful books — I’m a Roman Catholic and a devout Catholic, I try to be as devout as I can, I’m a practicing Catholic. But one of the most powerful books, as a young person, I read, was a book by a Frenchman called Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta, and that got me very interested in Hindu spirituality, in the study of Hindu religion. There was another book by a German professor, called the Philosophy of India, by a professor named — I believe his name was Zimmer — who wrote this book in the 1930s or 1940s. Had a very powerful impact on me. So I’ve studied, to the degree that one can study, I’ve taken a lot of time of my life to study Hindu spirituality.”
In fact, Julia Jones, Bannon’s s longtime Hollywood writing partner and former close friend, recounted that Bannon is obsessed with war and the Hindu concept of Dharma (cosmic law) in the Bhagavad Gita, or the most popular text of Hinduism which teaches on holy war for the cause of Dharma. Jones said:
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“Steve is a strong militarist, he’s in love with war—it’s almost poetry to him … [He] used to talk a lot about dharma — he felt very strongly about dharma … one of the strongest principles throughout the Bhagavad Gita.”
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The book that this “devout Catholic” (Bannon is tied with the “trad” or traditionalist Catholic movement which has a substantial amount of nationalism) follows, the Bhagavad Gita, actually legitimizes murder (so much for Thou shalt not murder, Mr. “Devout Catholic). In Hinduism, to kill an enemy is not murder, because the one killed has an eternal soul that lives on. To kill is not to kill, as we read in the Bhagavad Gita:
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Therefore, great warrior, carry on thy fight. If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. …When a man knows him as never-born, everlasting, never-changing, beyond all destruction, how can that man kill a man, or cause another to kill? (Gita, 2.19, 21, trans. Juan Mascaro, ellipses and bolding mine)
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In the same Hindu text the concept of Karma is used by Krishna as a means to killing as he exhorts war and slaughter, dispelling the leftist idea that Karma and Krishna are both “peaceful.” It reads:
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Arise therefore! Win thy glory, conquer thine enemies, and enjoy thy kingdom. Through the fate of their Karma I have doomed them to die: be thou merely the means of my work. (Ibid, 11.33)
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Bannon reveres Hinduism and supports Hindu nationalism by vocally backing Narendra Modi and his BJP party [Bharatiya Janata Party]. The BJP is an anti-Christian Hindu nationalist party. It wants to implement the NRC or the National Register of Citizens, or a document that is meant to have all of the names of all “genuine citizens” in the state. Currently the NRC is only in the Indian state of Assam, but the BJP wants to implement the surveilling system of the NRC on the whole country. The president of the BJP, Amit Shah, <a href="https://shoebat.com/2019/04/14/major-hindu-nationalist-ruling-party-president-calls-christians-infiltrators-in-major-speech-says-he-will-remove-them-from-the-country/">declared</a> on April of 2019 that he wants the NRC to be applied to all of India so that all religions except for Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism would remain in the country while all “infiltrator” religions would be removed:
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“We will ensure implementation of NRC in the entire country. We will remove every single infiltrator from the country, except Buddha, Hindus and Sikhs. … We have promised in our manifesto that when Narendra Modi forms government once again, we will implement NRC in the entire country”.
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So Bannon is actually supporting a political party that wants to remove Christianity from India, which would mean the extermination of Christians in that country. He calls himself a “devout Catholic,” but truly he is a part of the “trad” (short for traditionalist Catholic) ideological strata that masquerades itself with Catholicity while supporting fascist ideas or entities. This is not surprising at all, given the fact that Bannon backs insidious political parties in Europe like the Front National — founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen who <a href="https://shoebat.com/2018/10/15/steve-bannon-is-working-to-usher-in-the-antichrist-bannon-is-actually-a-globalist-and-is-now-working-to-advance-nationalism-in-the-muslim-country-of-pakistan-while-viktor-orban-is-now-collaborating-w/">collaborated with Ukrainian Nazis</a>, and the  Vlaams Balang — whose leader, Filip DeWinter, wants <a href="https://shoebat.com/2017/03/21/the-spirit-of-antichrist-is-conquering-europe-nazism-is-returning-fascism-is-taking-over-the-netherlands-geert-wilders-and-mark-rutte-are-both-fascists-who-believe-in-eugenics/">to create a “White Europe” </a>. If Bannon is supporting racialist parties in Europe, it is not surprising that he is backing a party that hates Christianity.
BJP officials have done other things that are demonstrative of their own sinister ways. In <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48278441">January of 2018</a>, Hindus kidnapped an eight year old girl, ragingly saying: “this is the daughter of a Muslim, kill her and they’ll get scared and run away”. They kept her in a Hindu temple where they drugged, tortured and gang raped her for a week. They eventually murdered her. Eight men were charged for the murder. Hindu nationalists took to the streets to protest in favor of the murderers. Attending the rally were two BJP ministers, Chaudhary Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga.
Singh belittled the crime by saying that: “This one girl has died and there is so much of investigation. There have been many deaths of women here,” as if to say that the rape and murder of the girl is insignificant because many girls are raped. This warped and perverted mentality did not disgust the heads of BJP who did not want to remove the two ministers. But after weeks of pressure, eventually the BJP acquiesced. Modi himself admitted: “The party did not want Mr Ganga and Mr Singh to step down. They resigned because media created an impression that they were supporting the rape accused”.   
So why is Bannon lobbying for such a party? Given the fact that he backs the racialist parties in Europe, what this indicate is that this shill of the American Right-wing is himself an antichrist. People will argue and say that he is a good Catholic. Bannon is a part of the “trad” Catholic circles and <a href="https://www.apple.com/">has ties</a>, through the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (Institute for Human Dignity), with major Vatican officials like Cardinal Raymond Burke and Cardinal Robert Sarah who said that “everyone was created by God to be placed in a specific place, with its culture, traditions, and history,” a logic that can be easily used to justify ethno-nationalism. There are many “trad” Catholics who would fall into the ideology of ethno-nationalism (just look at Leon Degrelle), and Bannon is an example of how the trad movement is entrenched in this ideology.   
 
 
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Spain's Canaries Volcano Lava Bigger Than 25 Football Pitches; Raises Concerns

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Lava flow from Cumbre Vieja volcano falls into the Atlantic Ocean on the Canary island of La Palma.
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Las Palmas, Spain:
Lava from the erupting volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands that began cascading into the ocean two days ago has already covered an area bigger than 25 football pitches, with concerns rising over worsening air quality in nearby residential areas, experts said on Thursday.
The newly wrought peninsula had doubled in size to 20 hectares (50 acres) since the morning, according to the Volcanic Institute of the Canaries (Involcan).
While the feared explosion and clouds of toxic gases released as the molten rock hit the ocean have not materialised, a forecast change in wind may bring new hazards, the Pevolca volcanic emergency committee warned.
"With the weather we are going to have from tomorrow," marked by a possible change in the direction of winds that have so far dispersed the gases towards the sea, it is possible "the smell of sulphur" will be felt "with greater intensity", Pevolca official Ruben Fernandez said.
Sulphur dioxide levels increased for the first time on Thursday afternoon in Tazacorte, while the ash particles increased in density in Santa Cruz de La Palma, according to the National Institute of Toxicology.
Since it began on September 19, the dramatic eruption has forced thousands out of their homes, while lava has destroyed hundreds of houses, businesses and huge swathes of banana plantations.
The volcano spewed out rivers of lava that slowly crept towards the sea, eventually pouring into the Atlantic Ocean late on Tuesday.
Since then, the rivers of molten rock have not stopped cascading into the sea, creating a growing lava delta.
While the initial impact on the flora and fauna of being submerged under the river of molten rock is devastating, over the longer term, it may prove beneficial -- bringing minerals from the Earth's core to the surface and providing a habitat both underwater and on land for colonisation by species, experts said.
Fernando Tuya, a biodiversity researcher at the University of La Palma, said: "The lava will form a rocky platform that will become a substrate for numerous marine species in the future, that is to say in three to five years."
As the white-hot lava poured into the sea, it sent plumes of acid fumes into the air that experts said could irritate the skin, eyes and respiratory tracts.
But fears it could affect the local population were quickly allayed as strong winds dispersed the vapours over the sea.
However that could change with the wind direction predicted to turn around on Friday.
Disaster zone
Some 300 residents in the nearby town of Tazacorte have been told to stay at home to avoid any chance of inhaling the gases and a 3.5-kilometre (two-mile) exclusion zone remained in place, which also extends two nautical miles out to sea.
"Until we know that these areas are not at risk, these measures will be maintained," Pevolca's Ruben Fernandez said on Wednesday evening.
La Palma has been declared a natural disaster zone, with the lava scorching its way across 476 hectares of land, the local government said on Twitter.
It has so far destroyed 855 buildings, an increase of more than 200 in just over 24 hours, the EU's Copernicus observation programme said on Twitter.
The eruption of La Cumbre Vieja has forced some 6,000 people to flee their homes but so far, nobody has been injured or killed.
Although the volcano is still erupting, La Palma's airport resumed operations on Wednesday after flights were suspended at the weekend due to the ash.
On Thursday, farmers were allowed to access their plantations outside the security zone to collect bananas -- the chief cash crop on the island.
La Cumbre Vieja lies about 15 kilometres (nine miles) west of the airport as the crow flies, although the lava has only spilt down the western side of the volcano.
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On North Korea, Joe Biden's "No Urgency" Policy Differs From Trump, Obama

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Joe Biden administration has repeatedly said it is willing to resume talks with North Korea.
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Washington:
During their only meeting, Barack Obama warned Donald Trump that North Korea would be the most pressing problem, setting the new president on a whiplash policy course that went from threatening war to wooing young leader Kim Jong Un.
Four years later, President Joe Biden is showing no such urgency -- and much more predictability -- even as the authoritarian state steps up both rocket launches and rhetoric.
The Biden administration has repeatedly said it is willing to resume talks without preconditions but it also shows little interest in enticing North Korea, which wants an end to sweeping sanctions.
North Korea for Biden is "still a priority issue but also a no-win kind of scenario," said Jenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center.
More proactive diplomacy would open Biden to accusations either that he is rewarding "bad behavior" or that he went too far or not far enough.
"If you're looking at how much political capital is the administration willing to spend on this issue, especially after Afghanistan, it's probably not very high," she said.
North Korea said recent tests included a new hypersonic missile, whose speed would be a potential game-changer, and Kim called the US offer of talks a "petty trick."
Trump had sought a wide-ranging agreement with North Korea, with which the United States remains technically still at war, but his three meetings failed to produce more than promises by Kim to hold off on nuclear and long-range missile testing.
"The last thing Kim Jong Un is going to want is another high-profile diplomatic failure at a time when they're having economic hardships and Covid-related hardship," Town said.
Small steps?
In an April policy review, the Biden administration said it was willing to engage North Korea and be flexible.
The policy appeared to be different both from Trump's pageantry and, at least on paper, from Obama's concept of "strategic patience," or waiting indefinitely until North Korea budges.
Few North Korea watchers believe that Kim will accept US demands to give up the nuclear arsenal, seen as an ultimate guarantor of security.
But Jacob Stokes, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the Biden administration could still negotiate an end to provocative behavior such as tests.
The challenge "is can you shelve the long-term question long enough to make interim progress," Stokes said.
If North Korea wants to keep up "aggressive provocations until the United States and South Korea provide a bunch of unilateral upfront concessions as the price of even getting to the negotiating table, that's very unlikely to work," he said.
North Korea has nonetheless taken small steps to ease tensions with South Korea, including restoring a military hotline.
The Biden administration has put a priority on allies South Korea and Japan and backed efforts by the South's dovish president, Moon Jae-In.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday he supported any South Korean efforts that can "reduce the risks," even as the United States prepared to take North Korea before the UN Security Council.
Looking for new ways
Ken Gause, who directs the adversary analytics program at the CNA research organization, said North Korea appeared to be following a two-track approach of raising the stakes with the United States while hoping South Korea can push diplomacy forward.
"North Korea has a game plan -- to push the US off strategic patience and to get them to put sanctions relief on the table. That's why they reject unconditional talks," Gause said.
He said that the previous administration -- "completely for reasons that had to do with Trump's mindset" -- found a more productive way to engage North Korea, but ultimately failed by focusing on pressure rather than incentives.
He feared that the Biden administration, filled with veteran policymakers, will not "think out of the box."
"For the last 40-50 years, we have framed this problem as a bilateral, black-and-white zero-sum game on the Korean peninsula -- you win, we lose, we win, you lose. That's where we are now."
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Iran To Set Date In "Weeks" To Return To Nuclear Talks "With Friends In Europe"

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Tehran:
Iran's new government will in the next few weeks decide on a date to return to nuclear talks in Vienna, a spokesman said on Thursday.
"I assume that in a few weeks we are in a position to set a date with our friends in Europe," Saeed Khatibzadeh said at a gathering in the French city of Caen.
"Then possibly we can start negotiations in Vienna."
The analytical work will end "maybe in a few days, less than a few weeks", he said.
"We are not going to waste even a minute to get back to Vienna," he said.
Khatibzadeh had earlier told Le Monde newspaper that the new Iranian administration would return to the talks more quickly than Biden's did.
Negotiations had resumed on 6 April in Vienna, 77 days after Joe Biden took office on 20 January.
However, "it has only been 50 days since the new Iranian government took office", he said.
The 2015 nuclear deal with Iran offered to lift sanctions in return for Tehran committing to abandon any ambition to develop nuclear weapons and for a drastic reduction in its atomic programme and submission to tighter UN control.
But after the unilateral withdrawal of the Americans from the agreement in 2018 under Donald Trump, Tehran has gradually abandoned most of its commitments.
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European Union, Australia Trade Talks Postponed Amid Submarine Row

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Submarine Row: Australia-EU free trade talks have been postponed, official said. (File)
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Sydney:
A long-planned round of Australia-EU free trade talks have been postponed, a European official confirmed Friday, after fury over Canberra's decision to cancel a major French submarine contract.
"The FTA trade round has been postponed for a month until November," an EU official in Canberra told AFP, throwing the future of the far-reaching pact into doubt.
Australia last month abruptly cancelled a multibillion-dollar contract for 12 French submarines, opting to buy nuclear-powered US-designed vessels instead.
The decision prompted a major diplomatic spat with one of the European Union's largest members and now appears to have hit ties with the entire bloc.
France has publicly said it can no longer trust Australia's government, accusing officials of lying and questioning whether the trade agreement can go ahead.
Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan, who was scheduled to travel to Europe for the talks, played down the decision in a statement to AFP.
"We understand the French reaction to our submarine decision but ultimately any nation must act in its national interest -- which is what Australia has done," he said.
Tehan indicated he plans to meet EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis next week to discuss what would be the 12th round of negotiations.
"We will continue preparing for the 12th round of negotiations and working towards concluding a free trade agreement that is in the interests of both Australia and the EU."
The EU is Australia's third-biggest trading partner.
In 2020, the trade in goods between the two economies was valued at 36 billion euros ($42.4 billion) and at 26 billion euros in services.
The next round of talks was due to cover areas including trade, services, investment and intellectual property rights.
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