Some like Antony Blinken believe insider connections are better than gold

 9-14-21   The United States State Dept. has promised to send about $64 million more in aid to Afghanistan, pledging to respect sanctions on the Taliban terrorist group that now controls the country.  https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-pledges-64-million-in-aid-to-afghanistan-promises-to-respect-sanctions_3996752.html

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  9-13-21  ”We will continue to press for the Taliban to respect the rights and freedoms of women and girls, and are committed to preserving the gains Afghans, especially women, have made in the past 20 years," Blinken said in a statement on Monday.  This announcement comes after the U.N. reported last week that millions in Afghanistan was beginning to run out of basic aid supplies and food.  https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/572038-us-sending-64m-in-humanitarian-aid-to

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Antony J. Blinken (born 4-16-1962 at NYC) entered Columbia Law School in 1985 and earned his J.D. in 1988.^[22][23] After graduation, he practiced law in New York City and Paris.^[24] Blinken worked with his father Donald to raise funds for Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee in the 1988 United States presidential election.^[5]

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   Washington Post columnist Charles Lane, a Harvard classmate, recalls that

Blinken approached Henry Kissinger for an interview for his senior thesis, about the trans-Siberian pipeline. “The fact that he would seek an interview respectfully with Henry Kissinger was like the epitome of being a moderate in our generation,” Lane says  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/11/tony-blinken-secretary-state-harvard-crimson-college-writing-new-republic-columns-world-view-456699

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  Secretary of State Antony Blinken is testifying Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he'll face a second day of interrogation from Republican lawmakers highly critical of the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

https://www.axios.com/blinken-senate-testimony-afghanistan-f49c16e1-7093-49ab-8c47-af4e9dee8789.html

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(1)  Jake Sullivan, who now serves as President Biden’s National Security Adviser, and (2) William J. Burns, President Biden’s nominee to be the Director of Central Intelligence Agency.  Also engaged with the students from the Kissinger Center’s Seminar, courses taught at the undergraduate and graduate level.  https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/09/kissinger-network-of-at-least-7-in.html

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