Footage circulating on X shows multiple angles of what appears to be a drone strike on a power plant that plays a critical role in keeping Moscow’s energy grid humming.

Visegrád 24 reports that long-range suicide drones struck the Shatura Power Plant in Moscow Oblast, roughly 75 miles east of the capital.

The facility is one of the region’s key power generation hubs, with about 1,500 MW of installed capacity, including a modern 400 MW combined-cycle gas-turbine unit added in 2010. The plant is owned and operated by PJSC Unipro, according to the latest available data.

“It’s one of Russia’s oldest electricity and heat generation facilities, playing an important part in supplying the wider Moscow region with heat and electricity,” Visegrád 24 noted.

BREAKING:

Ukrainian long-range suicide drones have struck the Shatura Power Plant in the Moscow region.

It’s one of Russia’s oldest electricity and heat generation facilities, playing an important part in supplying the wider Moscow region with heath and electricity. pic.twitter.com/qnyIhGvoGN

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 23, 2025

Another angle of the strike was uploaded on X by OSINTdefender.

The account wrote, “Several massive explosions have occurred at the Shatura Thermal Power Station in the Moscow Oblast of Western Russia, one of the largest power plants in the Russian Federation, following a large-scale drone strike tonight against Moscow by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

Several massive explosions have occurred at the Shatura Thermal Power Station in the Moscow Oblast of Western Russia, one of the largest power plants in the Russian Federation, following a large-scale drone strike tonight against Moscow by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/4m8woJkr0E

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) November 23, 2025

Additional footage:

Enthusiastic-sounding cameraman films the Ukrainian attack on the Shatura Power Station in Russia’s Moscow Oblast on Sunday morning. https://t.co/dxfiAY1yA9 pic.twitter.com/GbtMfyNttv

— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) November 23, 2025

There has been no official confirmation from Kyiv about the strike, and it comes on the same day Ukrainian and American officials are in Switzerland as part of Trump’s push for Kyiv to accept a peace deal to end the war with Russia. Moscow has not yet commented on the strike nor released details about the power plant’s status or outages.

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

In a far reaching vision for preserving human wisdom against existential threats, Elon Musk described his xAI venture’s Grokipedia as an indestructible archive destined for the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Speaking at the Baron Investment Conference, Musk likened the project to a “modern-day Library of Alexandria,” etched in microfont on stone to safeguard knowledge for future civilizations.

The comments, captured in a viral clip shared on X, underscore Musk’s ambition to transcend Earth’s fragile data repositories.

👀 Elon Musk Says Grokipedia Will Become a Backup of All Knowledge for Future Civilizations

“The idea behind this Galactica is to create an open source … distillation of all knowledge … And then we want to create copies of this and distribute these copies throughout Earth, and… pic.twitter.com/CWSggKCitH

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 22, 2025

“The idea behind this Galactica is to create an open source… distillation of all knowledge… And then we want to create copies of this and distribute these copies throughout Earth, and even put them on the moon and Mars and out of deep space… So in the worst case scenario, future civilization can see what we learned and maybe pick things up from there,” Musk said.

Musk’s remarks came during an onstage interview with Ron Baron, the 82-year-old founder of Baron Capital, a $45 billion asset management firm known for its long-term investments in growth stocks like Tesla.

The annual Baron Investment Conference, in New York, drew hundreds of investors eager for Musk’s insights on everything from electric vehicles to artificial intelligence. Baron, a longtime Tesla shareholder, pressed Musk on xAI’s boldest initiatives, leading to the discussion of Grokipedia—currently slated for a rebrand to “Encyclopedia Galactica,” a nod to sci-fi icons Isaac Asimov and Douglas Adams.

The exchange highlighted Musk’s blend of pragmatism and futurism. Evoking the ancient Library of Alexandria’s tragic burning as a cautionary tale, he proposed “literally etch[ing] it in stone” via microfont technology to ensure durability against disasters, wars, or cosmic mishaps.

Grokipedia emerged from Musk’s long-standing critiques of Wikipedia, which he has repeatedly called “hopelessly biased” due to activist-driven edits and its role as a foundational data source for AI training.

The project was first teased in September, when Musk announced on X: “We are building Grokipedia @xAI. Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.”

Powered by xAI’s Grok AI models, Grokipedia launched in a beta version a month later as an open-source repository of human knowledge—complete with text, audio, images, and video.

Unlike Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced model, it uses AI to “fact-check” and rewrite entries, purging propaganda, correcting half-truths, and filling gaps through first-principles reasoning. Early adopters praised its depth on niche topics, with Musk noting “Grokipedia has some truly excellent pages.”

The rollout wasn’t without hiccups. Musk delayed the initial release by two weeks to “purge out the propaganda,” and post-launch analyses revealed citations to controversial sources, including 42 references to the neo-Nazi site Stormfront—prompting backlash from media outlets like NBC News and WIRED, which accused it of amplifying far-right narratives.

xAI has since emphasized iterative improvements, allowing users to flag errors via a simple “It’s Wrong” tool.

Musk has amplified Grokipedia’s mission across X, blending announcements with interactive demos. “When Grokipedia is good enough (long way to go), we will change the name to Encyclopedia Galactica. … Join @xAI to help build the sci-fi version of the Library of Alexandria!” Musk urged.

Musk also hyped “Grokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy,” quoting gaming executive Mark Kern’s awe at its potential impact.

As xAI iterates toward version 1.0, Musk positions Grokipedia not just as an encyclopedia, but as a bulwark for truth in an AI-driven era. Eclipsing Wikipedia is a certainty, and with copies eyed for off-world deployment, its stakes are literally galactic.

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President Trump issued new comments overnight about a group of unhinged left-wing lawmakers, including Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Chris DeLuzio (D-Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), as well as Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), who told members of the military and intelligence community last week, “You can refuse illegal orders,” stressing, “You must refuse illegal orders.”

“THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

Trump continued, “IT WASN’T, AND NEVER WILL BE! IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID!” 

In a separate post, Trump noted, “MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS AGREE THAT THE DEMOCRAT TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS, AS PRESIDENT, HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME OF SERIOUS PROPORTION!” 

The Democratic lawmakers didn’t specify any specific orders from the administration. Meanwhile, a handful of issues related to military and intelligence operations have flared up recently, including the Trump administration’s National Guard deployment to crime-ridden sanctuary cities controlled by far-left Democrats. Some of these cities include Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon. 

“Don’t give up the ship,” the Democratic lawmakers declared at the end of their video. But former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams blasted the crazed leftists on X, writing, “You guys literally let in 10,000 foreign Islamist terrorists over the southern border — is this a fucking joke?!“

You guys literally let in 10,000 foreign Islamist terrorists over the southern border—is this a fucking joke!?

— Sarah Adams (@TPASarah) November 19, 2025

Last week, Trump accused the six lawmakers of “seditious behaviour, punishable by death” following the video’s release.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said “the words that the president chose are not the ones that I would use”, and defended Trump, saying he was simply “defining the crime of sedition”.

Johnson called the Democrats’ video “wildly inappropriate” and “very dangerous”.

“They are literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members to defy the chain of command, not to follow lawful orders,” Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, added. “It perhaps is punishable by law.”

The video makes it clear that Democrats are inciting revolt and resistance against lawful authority. This is part of their broader strategy to wage a full-blown, color-revolution-style operation through their dark billionaire-funded NGO sphere with a single objective: regime change.

🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution 🚨🚨

This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call.

Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into… pic.twitter.com/XtinGt306o

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 9, 2025

What’s clear is that globalist Democrats have no guiding principle beyond removing Trump from power and derailing the entire America First agenda. Let that sink in. 

Via Remix News,

Germany’s cities are on the verge of a massive financial crisis, with the mayor of Essen warning that the data shows that almost every single city in the country is nearly bankrupt.

Currently, the total deficit for all German cities in 2025 is €30 billion, which jumped from last year’s deficit of €24 billion.

Essen’s Mayor Thomas Kufen (CDU), who is also a member of the CDU federal executive board, is sounding the alarm: “Almost every German city is now on the verge of bankruptcy.”

In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, only 10 out of 396 cities and municipalities can present a balanced budget, and these alarming figures from Germany’s largest federal state can be applied to the “entire country,” he said.

Mayor Kufen stressed that the crisis is universal, affecting municipalities regardless of their location: “What’s new is that all cities have their backs against the wall,” he told Bild newspaper.

He warned that “budget freezes would now have to be imposed everywhere,” including in many cities previously considered wealthy.

Kufen emphasized the need for a national discussion on affordability: “We have to talk about what we can do so that our welfare state itself does not become a social case. This means: What do we want to afford and what else can we afford?” 

However, he noted that cities cannot make these crucial decisions themselves; only the federal government can

Kufen illustrated the crisis with figures from his own city, Essen, which has a population of nearly 600,000. The city had planned a balanced budget for 2025. “But instead of a slight increase of €1.7 million, we currently have a deficit of €123 million,” he calculated.

Once again, refugee accommodation and integration are near the top of the list for reasons why the city is seeing a budget shortfall. Far from being a solution to Germany’s budget and pension crisis, they have become a massive financial burden for the country, costing at least €50 billion a year in social integration, housing, and benefits.

WATCH: 🇩🇪🇪🇺 Mass immigration is fueling the West’s housing crisis.

Here’s how it’s happening in Germany.

In a powerful speech in the German Bundestag, @AfD politician Carolin Bachmann slams the ruling government for allowing 2 million migrants into the country while families… pic.twitter.com/DMEqiV316S

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 15, 2024

However, there are also many more hidden costs to mass immigration, including rising housing prices, healthcare costs, education costs for an increasingly foreign student population, and housing a huge number of foreigners in German prisons and psychiatric institutions. Just like Essen, even major cities like Berlin are seeing “spiraling costs” due to mass immigration, leading to large-scale debt required to keep the cities running.

Some research studies have indicated that the overall cost of immigration has already cost Germany trillions and could reach €20 trillion if migration numbers do not fall.

Kufen points to education and social spending as burdens on his city as well, and in many ways, foreigners here also account for huge costs.

For example, official statistics from Essen indicate there are approximately 22,730 primary school students enrolled in Essen, and out of these, about 5,565 are classified as “Not German,” making up roughly 24.5 percent of primary school students in the city. If this definition is expanded to those with an “immigration background,” then the figure increases to 35 percent.

​As with states and cities across the country, the non-German student population has, in general, been a massive budget burden, as these students need extra integration courses and more money per student to compensate for educational deficits.

When it comes to social spending, approximately 63 percent of all welfare recipients in Germany are foreigners or have a foreign background, despite being a much smaller share of the population.

In regard to Essen, there are also increased personnel costs due to a public sector tariff increase.

As a consequence, Kufen had to impose “restrictive household management” in Essen. This means the city is essentially only paying what is legally required, such as social assistance and wages. For all other expenses over €5,000, “you need an extra permit from the treasurer.” 

Summarizing the situation, Kufen said, “There’s not much left.”

Addressing the federal government’s gigantic debt package intended to help cities, Kufen explained that Essen will receive €335 million over the next 12 years, equating to “just 28 million per year.” 

He argued this is insufficient because the funding is primarily intended to finance construction projects. In Essen, that would “with luck be enough for two and a half schools,” Kufen said, noting that “costs have exploded, especially when it comes to construction.”

Kufen made it clear he doesn’t want to sound “ungrateful.”

“We’re happy to take the money. But if someone thinks that Berlin or Düsseldorf will solve all my problems, all I can say is: It will help alleviate them, but we still have a lot to struggle with.”

The mayor stressed that what cities truly need is “not just the money for investments, but simply less bureaucracy, easier awards, fewer requirements so that I can end up doing more with the little money.”

He also warned that if the state cannot function, then democracy is under threat, saying: “Because that’s where citizens find out whether the state works. Whether I can get a daycare place or whether the street lamps come on at night. If you can no longer do all of this, the people who pay taxes get the impression that politicians are not dealing with it properly. And that’s dangerous.”

It is not just the government either, with data showing that residents in Essen are taking on more and more personal debt due to rising rents, electricity, and even food prices, which have risen further in recent months.

The number of people who have taken on so much debt that they cannot pay it back has risen for the first time in six years as well, reaching 5.7 million people who are defined as “over-indebted.” The report also warns that this trend is expected to worsen due to rising unemployment.

Read more here…

The income threshold for being considered rich in Europe varies considerably from country to country.

In Luxembourg, wealth begins for a three-person household with an annual net income of 175,000€, while in Turkey, even less than 20,000€ is enough to cross the threshold (higher pane below).

Germany ranks in the upper mid-range. 

It is also interesting to see how the figures change after adjustment for the cost of living (lower pane below).

Source: Voronoiapp.com

Although the gap remains, the income differences even out when you take into account what the income can actually buy locally.