Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas is now tossing tool bags around a (fake) construction site

It’s not hyperbole to say that America is broken; badly broken. The hope that Donald Trump would put America on the right path has also been broken. Yet another Middle East war is the very last thing that our nation needed. With each passing moment, the costs are mounting. How much can the American people, […] The post Counting The Costs: Another War Is Not What America Needed appeared first on LewRockwell.

Germany Restricts Emigration To Prevent Young Men From Escaping The Military Draft Authored by Ryan McMaken via the Mises Institute, Late last year, German lawmakers passed new legislation paving the way for military conscription. As the Guardian reports, “The change will include the obligatory screening of all 18-year-old men to gauge their suitability to serve in the military from 1 January..” This is not (yet) full-blown conscription, but clearly moves in that direction, providing the German state with a plan to measure and assess the availability of young men who...

Germany To Scrap Subsidy For Rooftop Solar Germany is planning to abolish fixed feed-in tariffs for small rooftop solar installations as of 2027, saying that falling costs have made the technology economically sound without subsidies (narrator: "it isn't"), Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a draft proposal for reforms it has seen. At present, rooftop solar installations of any kind are eligible for guaranteed tariffs. But this could change in a few months, if the government approves the proposal of the German economy ministry to have subsidies abolished for projects of less...