*Bank of America Accused of Using "Accounting Tricks as Real Climate Action."*

If your bank account is in a big bank, how about moving it to a local bank that invests in your local economy.

The "Babies not Billionaires" bill is another version of the billionaire's tax. the billionaire's tax.

Its feature is that it would require the IRS to audit annually everyone with over $100 million in assets. No more harping on poor people's child tax credit.

I support the substance of this bill because it will help make sure no children in the US have to grow up in poverty. But I dislike the name of this bill because it spreads the dangerous, obsolete idea that there is something good about having babies. On the contrary, it is important to reduce the birth rate to a low number.

*USDA Conservation Program Must Be Reformed to Stop Funding Pollution, Report Shows.*

In the short term, money spent buying Russian oil is blood money. In the long term view, money spent buying oil anywhere is blood money.

Now that Australia has thrown away the precautions against the spread of Covid-19, lots of people go to sports events, concerts and so on, 3% of the population is immunocompromised and don't dare go.

Another 3% is immunocompromised and takes a wild risk by going anyway.

It would be so easy to require vaccination and reduce the threat to all those people.