A Typical Example of Governmental Doubletalk
". . . he noted that Moscow is not in favor of this path."
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(Article #44 of the Current Series of Posts that Commenced with the May 17 article)
Featured Perspective from MSN / News 360:
U.S. open to diplomacy with Russia to end war in Ukraine
by Daniel Stewart (October 21, 2022)
photo caption: "U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference
at the end of the NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. - Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa © Provided by News 360"
(My personal response to this photo for this news article presented to me by my Internet browser MSN My Feed is that this is an example of the superstitions accepted by individuals as an assumed imperative involving world capitalist supremacy winner-take-all patriotism. Currently prominent throughout the regulated mainstream news media are blatant military programming/brainwashing indoctrination deriving from people in government leadership roles having personal inclinations that conducting in a world war will enhance one's personal social prestige despite world wisdom traditions offering such commandments as 'Thou shalt not kill' and "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The website for the free Internet edition of TESTAMENT chronicles how new spiritual advice was communicated from The God Force, including "Love is the only true religion. God is a Socialist. There is only one country.")
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that his country is open to diplomacy with Russia in the interests of negotiating an agreed end to the war in Ukraine, although he noted that Moscow is not in favor of this path.
"We reaffirm our commitment to meaningful diplomacy that can end the war, even as Moscow continues to demonstrate by its escalatory actions that its pretense of being open to diplomacy is as hollow as it has been since President Putin launched his invasion in February," the State Department head said at a press briefing.
However, while Blinken has noted that the United States "is and is again by all means considering" diplomacy as a means of ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russia "shows no signs of being willing to engage in meaningful diplomacy in any way."
"When it comes to diplomacy to end the war, it depends entirely on whether Russia gets to a place where it is actually interested in stopping the aggression that it started, and we have not seen evidence of that at this point," the secretary of state has noted, according to a statement from the department he heads.
Instead, Russia would be "doubling and tripling down on its aggression" by partially mobilizing hundreds of thousands of Russians, or holding the "sham" referendums to annex four Ukrainian regions, according to the U.S. government.
In this sense, he remarked that "the fundamental problem" of the Ukrainian people "is not only extraordinarily brave and resilient, but also very successful in repelling aggression and regaining their land."
For this reason, according to Blinken, Russia would not be willing to open negotiations, since "Ukrainians fight for their country, for their land and for their future," while Russia does not.
"The sooner Russian President Vladimir Putin understands that and comes to that conclusion, the sooner we will be able to put an end to this war," the head of the US diplomacy said.
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Another article published yesterday has the headline "U.S. open to diplomacy to achieve peace in Ukraine, but Russia does not want this - Blinken" (Ukrinform [Ukrainian multimedia platform for broadcasting]).
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Here's the U.S. Department of State biography for the man who is the subject of this News 360 article —
Antony J. Blinken
Secretary of State
January 26, 2021 - Present
Antony J. Blinken is the 71st U.S. Secretary of State.
He was nominated by President Biden on November 23, 2020; confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 26, 2021; and sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris the following day.
Over three decades and three presidential administrations, Mr. Blinken has helped shape U.S. foreign policy to ensure it protects U.S. interests and delivers results for the American people. He served as deputy secretary of state for President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017, and before that, as President Obama’s principal deputy national security advisor. In that role, Mr. Blinken chaired the interagency deputies committee, the main forum for hammering out the administration’s foreign policy.
During the first term of the Obama Administration, Mr. Blinken was national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden. This was the continuation of a long professional relationship that stretched back to 2002, when Mr. Blinken began his six-year stint as Democratic staff director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then-Senator Biden was the chair of that committee from 2001 to 2003 and 2007 to 2009.
During the Clinton Administration, Mr. Blinken served as a member of the National Security Council staff, including two years as the senior director for European affairs, the president’s principal advisor on the countries of Europe, the European Union, and NATO. He also spent four years as President Clinton’s chief foreign policy speechwriter, and he led the NSC’s strategic planning team.
Mr. Blinken’s public service began at the State Department. From 1993 to 1994, he was a special assistant in what was then called the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. Now he is proud to lead the department where he got his start in government nearly 30 years ago.
Outside of government, Mr. Blinken has worked in the private sector, civil society, and journalism. He was a founder of WestExec Advisors, an international strategic consulting firm focused on geopolitics and national security. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2001 and 2002. Before joining government, Mr. Blinken practiced law in New York and Paris. He was also a reporter for The New Republic magazine and is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis (Praeger, 1987).
Mr. Blinken attended grade school and high school in Paris, where he received a French Baccalaureat degree with high honors. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School. He and his wife Evan Ryan have two children.
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Note from MRB:
This year I’ve been campaigning for a return to international diplomacy and for citizens to express themselves to stop national leaders from opting to carry out deluded military agendas that they estimate will enhance their personal prestige. Right now throughout the world there are horrible conditions resulting from the breakdown of international
diplomacy. For many decades it has been culturally traditional for countless people to rely on military-industrial complex-controlled mainstream news and also give their attention to entertainment, instead of developing their metaphysical, spiritual and cosmological understanding of life. Considering the many billions of dollars used for military aid to Ukraine, the money would have been better used in support of America's homeless and disenfranchised along with finding ways to help improve the lives of people internationally, in particular Russia to evade nuclear war that will destroy the environment of our planet. Proxy war is also war against man and God. When contemporary world leaders plainly state ultimatums to one another, only someone with a mentality indoctrinated to be passive to the mindset of 'military programming' would fail to advocate diplomatic ways of resolving problems. Recent blog articles have focused on the circumstances related to the reasons that 'those who live as sheeple will perish as sheeple' unless collectively we may through working together express
enough love and respect to our fellow humans to take society beyond illusionary devotion to nationalism-oriented paperwork principalities. Providing intellectual and spiritual insights for us are what may be learned from being attentive to documented Divine Dispensations that have been subjects for reporting at this blog for many years. (Metaphysical Articles Index) Warnings for mankind have included apparitions of the blessed virgin Mary and contemporary correlations with the life of Bel-Marduk, the ancient god-king-priest who wasn't able to prevent a holocaust in the ancient world.
October 2, 1990 newsletter edition
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a warning from our entertainment culture exemplifying the results of totalitarianism in relation to present worldly conditions and 'silence of the sheeple' deriving from metaphysical and spiritual ignorance
Update: Here's a Fox News report about Blinken from November 25, 2020.
Blinken served as the managing director of the University of Pennsylvania's Biden Center
by Fred Lucas
Antony Blinken has had a long history with Joe Biden before the president-elect tapped him to be his secretary of state nominee — as a Biden Senate aide, an advisor to the then-vice president and deputy secretary of state during the Obama administration.
But it could be a non-federal role—one also closely tied to Biden—that will raise a question in his Senate confirmation hearings regarding how America's next chief diplomat will handle China.
Blinken served as the managing director of the University of Pennsylvania's Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, also known as the Penn Biden Center, established in 2017. He left that position in 2019 to join the Biden campaign.
In May, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a government watchdog group, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education seeking to force the university and the Penn Biden Center to disclose the names of anonymous Chinese donors who gave $22 million since 2017, including one $14.5 million gift in May 2018.
BIDEN PICKS BLINKEN, MAYORKAS, SULLIVAN FOR KEY CABINET POSITIONS
"This center was an incubation for Biden's foreign policy team and it's a natural place for his choice of secretary of state," Tom Anderson, director of the public integrity project for the National Legal and Policy Center, told Fox News. "Every person in this center will likely have some role in a Biden administration."
Anderson said Blinken should disclose the names of all Chinese donors if the University of Pennsylvania will not ahead of his Senate confirmation.
While Anderson said there is "nothing illegal" about these donations, "Chinese contributors knew Joe Biden might run for president, and if Biden won, they would have connections to the future administration officials."
Added Anderson, "Corruption isn't always about money. Sometimes it's about access."
In an email, Biden transition spokesman Andrew Bates referred Fox News to the response from the university last May denying that it accepted undisclosed donations.
In a written statement to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the university's vice president of communications Stephen MacCarthy said the complaint was "completely untrue."
"We have never solicited any gifts for the Penn Biden Center," MacCarthy told the student newspaper in May. "Since its inception in 2017, there have been three unsolicited gifts, from two donors, which combined [to a total of] $1,100. Neither of the donors [was] from China."
The Penn Biden Center did not immediately respond to Fox News for a comment on this story.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires universities and colleges to report to the federal government any contracts or gifts from a foreign source valued at $250,000 or more.
As for the university's claim of no solicitation of funding to the Penn Biden Center, Anderson said that's not the question.
BIDEN SECRETARY OF STATE PICK BLINKEN OPPOSED TERRORIST LABEL FOR IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD
"Probably the biggest solicitation for foreign money in the history of the University of Pennsylvania was when they slapped Biden's name on their think tank," Anderson said. "Every operator, spy, foreign agent in the world immediately set their sights and their wallets on the university the day they used Biden's name. So this is simply spin for the masses. But anyone with any experience knows how this works and what's going on. It's why they'll never be transparent and open up their books."
The NLPC complaint to the Department of Education shows that beginning October 2013 through June 2019, Chinese donors contributed about $67 million to the university.
What's not entirely clear based on university records and the NLPC complaint is how much of the Chinese money that poured into the university went to the Penn Biden Center. It's only clear that the amount of China donations increased substantially after the Penn Biden Center was established.
The gifts were lower before 2017 when the Penn Biden Center was established, and contributions from Chinese sources to the university accelerated When the Penn Biden Center opened a location in Washington, D.C. in February 2018.
The complaint notes that in 2017, out of a total of $7.7 million in donations from China, $500,000 came from anonymous donors. In 2018 the total donated was $27.1 million with anonymous donors giving $15.8 million of that. And, in 2019, Chinese donors contributed $26.9 million to the Penn Biden Center, of which $6 million were anonymous.
By contrast, in 2013, the complaint shows the university received $4.3 million from Chinese donors, according to the NLPC complaint to the Department of Education. In 2014, the number fell slightly to $3.8 million, was back up to $4.9 million in 2015, and jumped to $6.8 million in 2016.
The complaint shows just three anonymous gifts to the university from China in 2013, and two in 2016. However, after the Penn Biden Center opened, from 2017 through mid-2019, there were 23 anonymous donations from China.
Starting in 2014 through 2016, Blinken served as the deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration. From 2009 to 2013 he was the national security adviser to then-Vice President Biden. When Biden was the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 through 2008, Blinken served as the committee's staff director. He was also a member of the Clinton administration's National Security Council from 1994 through 2001.
The high-profile questions surrounding the president-elect's son Hunter Biden should still be explored, as the NLPC filed a complaint with the Justice Department inquiring about the Foreign Agent Registration Act. But, Anderson believes this Penn Biden Center poses a larger problem.
"Whatever Hunter Biden had a lot to do with his own personal problems," Anderson said. "Blinken’s actions will affect millions."
Biden secretary of state pick under fire for Chinese Biden Center funds
Blinken served as the managing director of the University of Pennsylvania's Biden Center
by Fred Lucas
Antony Blinken has had a long history with Joe Biden before the president-elect tapped him to be his secretary of state nominee — as a Biden Senate aide, an advisor to the then-vice president and deputy secretary of state during the Obama administration.
But it could be a non-federal role—one also closely tied to Biden—that will raise a question in his Senate confirmation hearings regarding how America's next chief diplomat will handle China.
Blinken served as the managing director of the University of Pennsylvania's Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, also known as the Penn Biden Center, established in 2017. He left that position in 2019 to join the Biden campaign.
In May, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a government watchdog group, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education seeking to force the university and the Penn Biden Center to disclose the names of anonymous Chinese donors who gave $22 million since 2017, including one $14.5 million gift in May 2018.
BIDEN PICKS BLINKEN, MAYORKAS, SULLIVAN FOR KEY CABINET POSITIONS
"This center was an incubation for Biden's foreign policy team and it's a natural place for his choice of secretary of state," Tom Anderson, director of the public integrity project for the National Legal and Policy Center, told Fox News. "Every person in this center will likely have some role in a Biden administration."
Anderson said Blinken should disclose the names of all Chinese donors if the University of Pennsylvania will not ahead of his Senate confirmation.
While Anderson said there is "nothing illegal" about these donations, "Chinese contributors knew Joe Biden might run for president, and if Biden won, they would have connections to the future administration officials."
Added Anderson, "Corruption isn't always about money. Sometimes it's about access."
In an email, Biden transition spokesman Andrew Bates referred Fox News to the response from the university last May denying that it accepted undisclosed donations.
In a written statement to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the university's vice president of communications Stephen MacCarthy said the complaint was "completely untrue."
"We have never solicited any gifts for the Penn Biden Center," MacCarthy told the student newspaper in May. "Since its inception in 2017, there have been three unsolicited gifts, from two donors, which combined [to a total of] $1,100. Neither of the donors [was] from China."
The Penn Biden Center did not immediately respond to Fox News for a comment on this story.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires universities and colleges to report to the federal government any contracts or gifts from a foreign source valued at $250,000 or more.
As for the university's claim of no solicitation of funding to the Penn Biden Center, Anderson said that's not the question.
BIDEN SECRETARY OF STATE PICK BLINKEN OPPOSED TERRORIST LABEL FOR IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD
"Probably the biggest solicitation for foreign money in the history of the University of Pennsylvania was when they slapped Biden's name on their think tank," Anderson said. "Every operator, spy, foreign agent in the world immediately set their sights and their wallets on the university the day they used Biden's name. So this is simply spin for the masses. But anyone with any experience knows how this works and what's going on. It's why they'll never be transparent and open up their books."
The NLPC complaint to the Department of Education shows that beginning October 2013 through June 2019, Chinese donors contributed about $67 million to the university.
What's not entirely clear based on university records and the NLPC complaint is how much of the Chinese money that poured into the university went to the Penn Biden Center. It's only clear that the amount of China donations increased substantially after the Penn Biden Center was established.
The gifts were lower before 2017 when the Penn Biden Center was established, and contributions from Chinese sources to the university accelerated When the Penn Biden Center opened a location in Washington, D.C. in February 2018.
The complaint notes that in 2017, out of a total of $7.7 million in donations from China, $500,000 came from anonymous donors. In 2018 the total donated was $27.1 million with anonymous donors giving $15.8 million of that. And, in 2019, Chinese donors contributed $26.9 million to the Penn Biden Center, of which $6 million were anonymous.
By contrast, in 2013, the complaint shows the university received $4.3 million from Chinese donors, according to the NLPC complaint to the Department of Education. In 2014, the number fell slightly to $3.8 million, was back up to $4.9 million in 2015, and jumped to $6.8 million in 2016.
The complaint shows just three anonymous gifts to the university from China in 2013, and two in 2016. However, after the Penn Biden Center opened, from 2017 through mid-2019, there were 23 anonymous donations from China.
Starting in 2014 through 2016, Blinken served as the deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration. From 2009 to 2013 he was the national security adviser to then-Vice President Biden. When Biden was the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 through 2008, Blinken served as the committee's staff director. He was also a member of the Clinton administration's National Security Council from 1994 through 2001.
The high-profile questions surrounding the president-elect's son Hunter Biden should still be explored, as the NLPC filed a complaint with the Justice Department inquiring about the Foreign Agent Registration Act. But, Anderson believes this Penn Biden Center poses a larger problem.
"Whatever Hunter Biden had a lot to do with his own personal problems," Anderson said. "Blinken’s actions will affect millions."
