The Spectator Index

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2026-05-29 22:10:09 UTC

BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary says that $1 billion in crypto has been seized from Iran

2026-05-28 05:10:10 UTC

BREAKING: US crude oil price up 4% as US-Iran tensions rise again

2026-05-27 21:00:22 UTC

US crude oil prices fall by 4.7% amid growing optimism of potential US-Iran deal.

2026-04-15 11:50:11 UTC

Trump post about China and Iran war.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8379c51bec41df3c9c5663afb747b147cdc673b8d109307cd0351e4db6c50d60.file

2026-04-14 01:20:19 UTC

Saudi Arabia is 'pressing' the US to 'drop its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and return to the negotiating table', according to Wall Street Journal report.
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2026-04-12 20:25:10 UTC

Viktor Orban, who has served as PM for 16 years, has conceded defeat in Hungary's election.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f57586cca9286ef676664c8fd120c1333168dac5ed8559d285b3e355ef967285.file

2026-04-10 19:30:18 UTC

BREAKING: Trump promises mass pardons for his staff before he leaves office, according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-04-08 04:30:17 UTC

BREAKING: Trump says 'this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East'
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ab9b61b801008d71e5bdf8c05fa6fc1082fcaeca305baf3fceaa31b9a930befc.file

2026-04-05 04:50:10 UTC

BREAKING: Trump post about F-15 crew member rescue
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/574a4028119b9434b302b7ed024460bf3287af3f8761b3aa51ca39e1e511e95b.file

2026-04-02 02:55:11 UTC

Post from the US Secretary of War
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2026-04-01 01:40:15 UTC

BREAKING: Argentina has designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization

2026-03-25 02:15:13 UTC

BREAKING: Iran has demanded closure of US bases in the Gulf, end of all sanctions, end of Israeli campaign against Hezbollah and a framework that would allow it to collect fees from ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, as part of a response to Trump proposal, according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-03-24 19:15:21 UTC

BREAKING: The US is set to deploy a 'brigade combat team from the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran', according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-03-22 01:25:09 UTC

BREAKING: Iranian military says it will strike energy infrastructure and desalination plants in the region if the US targets its power plants

2026-03-20 10:25:11 UTC

BREAKING: Trump administration is considering plans to 'occupy or blockade Iran's Kharg Island', which processes 90% of Iranian oil exports, according to Axios report.

2026-03-19 19:35:09 UTC

BREAKING: Iran's strike on Qatar gas facility will take up to 5 years of repairs and cut production by 17%

2026-03-19 05:05:18 UTC

BREAKING: Oil refinery in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh was attacked by Iranian ballistic missiles, according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-03-10 10:35:24 UTC

BREAKING: Israel is conducting a new wave of strikes against targets in Iran

2026-03-09 18:15:28 UTC

BREAKING: Anthropic has sued the Pentagon after being declared a 'supply chain risk', according to FT.

2026-03-05 11:55:17 UTC

BREAKING: New ballistic missile launch from Iran towards Israel

2026-03-04 01:55:25 UTC

The New York Times reports that there are now around 50,000 American troops in the Middle East who have been assigned to the Iran war.

2026-03-03 18:25:22 UTC

BREAKING: Trump calls Spain a 'terrible ally' and says 'we are going to cut off all trade' and 'we don't want anything to do with Spain'

2026-03-01 21:15:23 UTC

Elon Musk says that Dubai and the UAE are 'objectively safer and better run than many areas of Europe'.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c615db3d2348553af08b8b7399a059108d4661131a17f908c2dcedb065643ecd.file
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2026-03-01 19:05:16 UTC

BREAKING: UAE will shut its stock market on Monday and Tuesday amid Iranian attacks

2026-02-28 08:35:28 UTC

BREAKING: US names campaign against Iran, 'Operation Epic Fury'.

2026-02-26 18:55:25 UTC

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Department of Justice says will investigate whether it improperly withheld some documents in the Epstein Files

2026-02-25 03:55:25 UTC

BREAKING: Trump says Iran has 'killed at least 32,000 protesters' in their country

2026-02-24 04:00:46 UTC

Gold has now overtaken the US Dollar as the world's top reserve asset.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3ec42db19902a7bc09ec3492cee0a64e93de10a93410823c957cfcea0e2713ef.file

2026-02-20 09:25:15 UTC

BREAKING: The US has now amassed the biggest force in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to Bloomberg report.

2026-02-20 02:05:26 UTC

BREAKING: Trump says he will direct the release of government files 'related to alien and extraterrestrial life', says these are 'highly complex but interesting and important matters'

2026-02-19 06:55:28 UTC

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol and his former Defense Minister have been found guilty of insurrection
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ac04655bb51af0c43e8076b71118928a22ad5c3bf2176ef3307ad3838126da77.file

2026-02-18 08:05:54 UTC

BREAKING: Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank, is set to leave before the end of her 8-year term, to give Macron and Merz the chance to pick her successor, according to FT report.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/01c653e47b16aec28fe171bbcea4d0ad146a35c0472e8ac03a5d403a7069a183.file

2026-02-12 20:05:16 UTC

BREAKING: Silver is now down over 9%

2026-02-12 16:05:24 UTC

The highest-earning 10% of 🇺🇸American households now represent almost half of all US consumer spending, according to Moody's Analytics report.

2026-02-11 10:05:27 UTC

Bitcoin price 9th of October: $121,745 Now: $66,830
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9f31c7ebaedbfc2388cf0902f4a8b652b0595f0dac5d114e8a8bb67fca9027cf.file

2026-02-06 10:00:38 UTC

Silver price One week ago: $117 Now: $74

2026-02-05 23:45:24 UTC

Silver price One week ago: $117 Now: $67

2026-02-05 13:05:23 UTC

World's happiest countries. 1. 🇫🇮 Finland 2. 🇩🇰 Denmark 3. 🇮🇸 Iceland 4. 🇸🇪 Sweden 5. 🇳🇱 Netherlands 6. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 7. 🇳🇴 Norway 8. 🇮🇱 Israel 9. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 10. 🇲🇽 Mexico 11. 🇦🇺 Australia 12. 🇳🇿 New Zealand 13. 🇨🇭 Switzerland 14. 🇧🇪 Belgium 15. 🇮🇪 Ireland 16. 🇱🇹 Lithuania 17. 🇦🇹 Austria 18. 🇨🇦 Canada 19. 🇸🇮 Slovenia 20. 🇨🇿 Czechia 21. 🇦🇪 UAE 22. 🇩🇪 Germany 23. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 24. 🇺🇸 United States 25. 🇧🇿 Belize 26. 🇵🇱 Poland 27. 🇹🇼 Taiwan 28. 🇺🇾 Uruguay 29. 🇽🇰 Kosovo 30. 🇰🇼 Kuwait 31. 🇷🇸 Serbia 32. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 33. 🇫🇷 France 34. 🇸🇬 Singapore 35. 🇷🇴 Romania 36. 🇧🇷 Brazil 37. 🇸🇻 El Salvador 38. 🇪🇸 Spain 39. 🇪🇪 Estonia 40. 🇮🇹 Italy (World Happiness Report)

2026-02-05 05:35:24 UTC

BREAKING: Bitcoin is now down 25% over the past 30 days

2026-02-04 09:35:17 UTC

JUST IN: Saudi Arabia set to invest $2 billion in building solar power plants in Turkey

2026-02-04 08:55:16 UTC

BREAKING: United States condemns South Africa's decision to expel Israeli diplomat

2026-01-25 22:05:17 UTC

BREAKING: US air force set to initiate exercises in the Middle East to 'demonstrate the ability to deploy, disperse, and sustain combat airpower'

2026-01-20 05:55:17 UTC

BREAKING: Trump says that if Macron is 'hostile' to Board of Peace invitation, he will impose 200% tariff on French wines and champagnes.

2026-01-13 08:55:20 UTC

BREAKING: Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz says 'we are witnessing the final days and weeks of the Iranian regime'
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4a766d540bbba4f52108c2abdc90a004f723cae924506a1251ac50c50ee06520.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2d7c9f94bb143bf0fc9cae84bda03b850826421abd4b2397e1c104062ab6f947.file

2026-01-11 10:55:25 UTC

BREAKING: Iranian state media says that 109 security personnel have been killed in protests

2026-01-10 17:05:17 UTC

Price change over past year. Silver: +163% Platinum: +135% Lithium: +85% Gold: +67% Copper: +37%

2026-01-10 15:05:24 UTC

Gold price One year ago: $2676 Now: $4510
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e8a34418f40ee056e911b89172a210bd7ab97866e9ba6398ed51afd8b7d76f33.file

2026-01-10 01:15:28 UTC

BREAKING: Trump calls for capping credit card interest rates to 10% for one year

2026-01-09 23:35:17 UTC

BREAKING: The United States Department of Agriculture is immediately suspending all federal funding to Minnesota

2026-01-09 20:15:40 UTC

BREAKING: Turkey is 'seeking to join the defense alliance between Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan', according to Bloomberg report.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8912b1fb6c47cd421268c15b98e2964e85d4d7a92d045fbce7751ca5e3982169.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/cdae400588b37de87751139886df5e2348cda31f32d40d95a3761baa3df74917.file

2026-01-09 08:55:25 UTC

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader set to speak shortly

2026-01-08 14:05:28 UTC

Trump's intervention in Venezuela has 'sent shivers down the spine of oil buyers in China', according to Financial Times report.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f5c0887a573c4ad454887fb44ec804a9ff0af753e0cecbacc8ddf45538fbad87.file
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2026-01-08 13:05:18 UTC

Population of Bulgaria 2000: 8.1 million 2025: 6.3 million
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1408a41bd3db806825ec1f708a1dd10df9c9e59f7cfcfedea3dc9b205d8914fa.file

2026-01-08 02:15:20 UTC

BREAKING: China hacked email systems of US congressional staff, according to Financial Times report.

2026-01-07 21:35:29 UTC

BREAKING: Warner Bros Discovery board rejects Paramount latest $108 billion bid

2026-01-07 19:55:28 UTC

Blackstone shares down 5%, as Trump aims to ban institutional investors from the purchase of single-family homes.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f5c0887a573c4ad454887fb44ec804a9ff0af753e0cecbacc8ddf45538fbad87.file
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1f8a4bd5bf39082db55cb05897875a531709347f13b49a91fcc4d8439ddda861.file

2026-01-07 19:55:20 UTC

BREAKING: United States says it has executed a warrant in seizing Russian-flagged oil tanker

2026-01-07 19:25:25 UTC

BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey tells ICE to 'get the f*** out' of the city after fatal shooting

2026-01-07 15:00:37 UTC

World's cleanest airports. 1. 🇯🇵 Tokyo Haneda 2. 🇰🇷 Seoul Incheon 3. 🇸🇬 Singapore Changi 4. 🇶🇦 Doha Hamad 5. 🇯🇵 Centrair Nagoya 6. 🇯🇵 Tokyo Narita 7. 🇯🇵 Kansai 8. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 9. 🇹🇼 Taiwan Taoyuan 10. 🇨🇭 Zurich (SkyTrax)

2026-01-06 14:05:23 UTC

Nuclear warheads 🇷🇺 Russia: 5580 🇺🇸 US: 5044 🇨🇳 China: 500 🇫🇷 France: 290 🇬🇧 UK: 225 🇮🇳 India: 172 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 170 🇮🇱 Israel: 90 🇰🇵 North Korea: 50 (SIPRI)

2026-01-05 10:55:16 UTC

BREAKING: Germany says the US must explain what its actions in Venezuela are based on

2025-12-29 19:55:31 UTC

BREAKING: Silver now down over 15% from yesterday's record high

2025-12-29 19:55:29 UTC

BREAKING: Syria unveils new currency
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https://hell.twtr.plus/media/abfe4ea0c98ac22a8f6a6ad88ad22c593414e006a8aeefd800c3b812073897a2.file
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2025-12-29 02:55:28 UTC

BREAKING: Silver passes NVIDA as the second-most valuable asset in the world, at over $4.65 trillion.

2025-12-22 21:45:17 UTC

BREAKING: Pentagon enters agreement with Elon Musk's xAI

2025-12-21 14:05:20 UTC

Best food destinations for 2026 1. 🇺🇸 Boston, USA 2. 🇬🇷 Crete, Greece 3. 🇲🇦 Fès, Morocco 4. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 5. 🇨🇴 Medellín, Colombia 6. 🇧🇷 Minas Gerais, Brazil 7. 🇦🇺 Parramatta, Australia 8. 🇳🇵 Patan, Nepal 9. 🇨🇦 Prince Edward County, Canada 10. 🇪🇸 Seville, Spain (Condé Nast Traveller)

2025-12-20 20:35:30 UTC

Elon Musk's net worth 10 years ago: $13.5 billion Now: $749 billion
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/102ba3a4ef4c29d370fd32aff3fcb5ffa1f9b4c4150086bc3bc296df688ae684.file

2025-12-19 23:15:18 UTC

BREAKING: Trump has announced retaliatory strikes over ISIS killing of three Americans in Syria

2025-12-19 22:25:24 UTC

BREAKING: US strikes on ISIS sites in Syria

2025-12-19 21:25:17 UTC

BREAKING: US Justice Department starts releasing Epstein files

2025-12-19 20:55:27 UTC

BREAKING: The Pentagon has failed its 8th audit in a row

2025-12-17 19:55:26 UTC

Putin says the Europeans who are backing Ukraine are 'swine' who would ultimately lose power.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/fbd10ba31fe7af7286b257999676f0fb7816f0b679b9d05f6b497ccbedc2cf47.file

2025-12-15 20:45:19 UTC

BREAKING: Trump classifies fentanyl as a 'weapon of mass destruction'

2025-12-14 21:15:24 UTC

BREAKING: The Telegraph reports that Israeli intelligence 'identifies Tehran as prime suspect in Sydney Hanukkah massacre'

2025-12-13 17:05:26 UTC

NVIDIA market value 1st of January, 2020: $144 billion Now: $4.25 trillion
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6beb75a0101dff8d2e8464d75012a25c8cc5992f013c4199f3a91823850b7b89.file

2025-12-13 15:05:17 UTC

Price change in 2025. Silver: +114% Platinum: +96% Gold: +63% Copper: +32% Lithium: +25%

2025-12-12 22:05:24 UTC

BREAKING: Trump Administration plans to issue $1 coin with President Trump’s likeness on it next year, according to CNN report.

2025-12-09 13:05:24 UTC

BREAKING: 🇦🇺 Australia becomes the first country to implement minimum age for social media use, with the ten biggest social media platforms required to block those aged under 16.

2025-12-02 02:55:20 UTC

BREAKING: Trump set to make announcement at 2pm EST on Tuesday

2025-12-01 07:55:33 UTC

On this day, six years ago on the 1st of December, 2019, a man in Wuhan, China, developed symptoms and became the index case for COVID-19. There have been over 778 million confirmed cases and 7.1 million deaths since then.

2025-11-29 14:05:31 UTC

Unemployment rate 🇿🇦 South Africa: 31.9% 🇪🇸 Spain: 10.45% 🇹🇷 Turkey: 8.5% 🇫🇷 France: 7.7% 🇦🇷 Argentina: 7.6% 🇨🇦 Canada: 6.9% 🇩🇪 Germany: 6.3% 🇮🇹 Italy: 6.1% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 5.4% 🇮🇳 India: 5.2% 🇨🇳 China: 5.1% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 5% 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 4.85% 🇺🇸 United States: 4.4% 🇦🇺 Australia: 4.3% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 4% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 3.2% 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 2.9% 🇯🇵 Japan: 2.6% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 2.6% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 2.6% 🇷🇺 Russia: 2.2% 🇸🇬 Singapore: 2%

2025-11-28 17:05:24 UTC

The average 🇺🇸 American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt and $22,612 in auto loans according to a survey by PolicyGenius.

2025-11-26 19:35:20 UTC

BREAKING: US Treasury reported $284 billion deficit in October

2025-11-26 00:45:28 UTC

BREAKING: 🇦🇺 Australia reports annual inflation of 3.8% in October, above forecasts.

2025-11-25 21:25:29 UTC

JUST IN: Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro has started serving his 27-year prison sentence
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1a9436070ae56c33df1f3183ada479d2d15513f11786e2e244b54866cfcb39b1.file

2025-11-18 03:35:28 UTC

BREAKING: Bitcoin has fallen below $90,000, the lowest since April.

2025-11-18 03:35:26 UTC

BREAKING: Lawrence Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, steps away from public commitments after documents show he asked Jeffrey Epstein on advice over 'pursuing an extramarital relationship with a female mentee', according to Financial Times report.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4e876f219c7b39e185399ada8dd098f35188a17e11680c3f0337f9efbdad10dd.file

2025-11-18 00:15:27 UTC

JUST IN: Trump says the world respects America again and 'is not laughing at us anymore'

2025-11-17 20:45:19 UTC

BREAKING: Trump says $2,000 tariff stimulus checks will be sent out by 'middle of 2026'

2025-11-17 20:15:21 UTC

BREAKING: Over $800 million in cryptocurrency liquidations over the past 24 hours

2025-11-14 19:25:25 UTC

BREAKING: 655 large US companies have gone bankrupt this year, the highest rate in 15 years, according to S&P Global data.

2025-11-14 15:05:15 UTC

RESEARCH: Bitcoin mining uses up more electricity annually than the entirety of Argentina, according to a study by Cambridge University.

2025-11-13 20:45:27 UTC

BREAKING: BBC apologizes to President Trump over edit of his speech, however rejects his demand for financial compensation.

2025-11-13 03:35:16 UTC

BREAKING: Trump signs spending bill, ending longest government shutdown in the history of the United States.

2025-11-11 20:46:23 UTC

JUST IN: Members of the US House of Representatives have started returning to Washington DC for a vote to end government shutdown
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/66f5f91d1746f8c6e1bdc762b9350a3acc7852201321a8532d2139742917d578.file

2025-11-08 00:55:17 UTC

BREAKING: Trump calls for termination of the filibuster
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/769018efc931dd55709d96cad3c1233eb70edb4fbbf1cfb5d093f1f454ba1757.file

2025-10-30 02:35:17 UTC

BREAKING: China's President Xi Jinping says that his country and the United States should be 'partners and friends'

2025-10-27 00:25:57 UTC

BREAKING: Argentina president Milei's party set to win the country's mid-term election
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2f8fb72df6933ffa49e81c29d381280c118fbe2b93602821417256d61d912d43.file

2025-10-22 20:55:37 UTC

BREAKING: NBC News reports the entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished 'within days', with the report stating it is 'significant expansion of the ballroom construction project'

2025-10-22 20:45:31 UTC

BREAKING: President Trump denies Wall Street Journal report that he has approved Ukraine being allowed to use long range missiles deep into Russian territory, calls it 'fake news'.
https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d9d13dc7c88e8094a6a4d9b4db13c749361db9dd922cb0d9867b8c1d88ab3613.file