⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱ISRAEL BOMBS BEIRUT AND LEVELS ENTIRE BUILDING in Lebanon’s capital, with giant black smoke cloud enveloping city as crowds rush to rubble to help any survivors still trapped under debris (vids above).

Tel Aviv admits it’s behind attack, claiming it's made "precise" strike as part of its aerial attacks against Lebanon.

Unverified reports that Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem targeted by strike.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱AT LEAST 3 KILLED BY ISRAELI STRIKE ON BEIRUT as building turned into mangled crater by IDF strike that also wounds at least 17.

Vids above show rescuers drenched in soot, clambering around rubble in desperate search for trapped survivors.

Reports that top #Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil targeted by attack - #Washington had put $7 MILLION bounty on his head for supposedly being behind 1983’s U.S. embassy bombing in #Beirut (bottom right pic).

UPDATE: Death toll rises to 8 with at least 59 wounded by attack.

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How is Kamala Harris tied to BlackRock?

Mike Pyle, a former senior aide to Vice President Kamala Harris, is said to be rejoining BlackRock in a move that will "strengthen the close ties" between the world's largest asset management firm and Washington, Bloomberg reports.

Other Democrats also appear to have close ties with BlackRock.

🌏 BlackRock co-founder Ralph Schlosstein was one of the first Wall Street heavyweights who endorsed Harris for the presidency in July 2024.

🌏 Pyle was chosen by then Vice President-elect Harris as her chief economist in early January 2021, while serving as BlackRock's global chief investment strategist.

🌏 In 2022, Pyle was made White House deputy national security advisor for international economics, and played a leading role in pressing Ukraine into carrying out economic and government reforms in line with US interests.

🌏 While Pyle advised President Joe Biden and Harris on reforming Ukraine, BlackRock struck an agreement with the Ukrainian government in November 2022 to provide advisory services to the Kiev regime. In May 2023, Kiev announced its plans to launch the Ukraine Development Fund (UDF) for reconstruction with BlackRock on its board.

🌏 Apart from Pyle, Harris and Biden hired BlackRock employees Brian Deese and Wally Adeyemo in 2021.

🌏 Harris is not the first US leader to hire the BlackRock alumni. Adeyemo and Pyle also served in the Obama administration, and Pyle was an economic policy advisor for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

🌏 The Intercept reports that by 2016, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink had assembled a "shadow government" from among the firm's staff for Clinton's future cabinet. Fink also hired Cheryl Mills, Bill and Hillary Clinton's long-time assistant and confidante.

🌏 Harris inherited her BlackRock connections from her mentors Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who Republicans have called the puppet masters behind the future Harris administration.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦💰EU’S CHIEF WITCH PLEDGES 35 BILLION EURO LOAN FOR ZELENSKY (bottom pic) as she lays out 3-point plan to waste all that cash on repairing Ukraine’s energy grid (00:26 in top vid) in futile attempt to keep its battered army fighting over upcoming freezing winter months.

🇱🇹😐 And von der Leyen gives ordinary Lithuanians great news that their government’s dismantling entire thermal power plant and shipping it to #Ukraine (02:27 in top vid).

Ursula claims #Kiev will have "maximum flexibility" in how colossal loan is spent - Mad Vlad gets the hint and is already shopping for more yachts...

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🇺🇦🇫🇲 💥 NATO ARMORED CONVOY PICKED APART BY RUSSIAN STRIKES as #Kiev cannon fodder crew in Leopard 2 tanks (burning in bottom vid), Marder infantry fighting vehicles and CV90 infantry fighting vehicles panic when blasts start peppering column of vehicles (00:09 in top vid).

1 vehicle so terrified it tries to speed away (00:29 in top vid) only for it to get so damaged by strikes that crew jump out and do a runner into forest nearby (00:41 in top vid).

At least 12 vehicles destroyed in short skirmish above as Kiev army’s attempt to roll across pre-war #Russia’s Kursk region ends in smoke, flames and piles of useless scrap.

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🇱🇧 HEZBOLLAH ANNOUNCES TOP MILITARY LEADER KILLED in Ahmed Wahbi (1st picture) along with top commander Aqel (2nd pic), also officially confirmed assassinated in brutal Israeli strike on one of most civilian-busy areas in Beirut's suburbs.

Wahbi joined Hezbollah upon its inception in early 80s, participated in many military operations against IDF during Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon 1985-2000. Played key role in defeating ISIS in Lebanon and Syria, Attacks on northern Israel since October 7, trained and commanded elite unit Radwan Force.

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