{"id":43975,"date":"2019-12-26T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=43975"},"modified":"2019-12-26T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:56:28","slug":"still-on-holidays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=43975","title":{"rendered":"Still on holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The blog is on holiday until Monday, December 30, 2018 although the usual Weekend Quiz will appear. There might be an existential question or two about Santa given the video that Norad has published. All the best from my local beach (Bar Beach today). Music to follow …
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Woodford Festival, Queensland, December 28, 2019<\/h2>\n

I am talking at the Woodford Folk Festival on MMT and Green Transition this Saturday, at 11:10 in the GREENhouse as part of the Festival’s Talks Program.<\/p>\n

If you are attending the Festival, then it would be great if you stopped and joined the audience.<\/p>\n

For – Further details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Santa managed to get to Australia this year, after missing us last year<\/h2>\n

Last year, I consulted the – Norad Santa Tracker<\/a> – which is compiled by the US North American Aerospace Defence Command and found that Santa had missed Australia.<\/p>\n

Being an evidence-based sort of person, I produced a screen shot recorded at 18:37 December 25, 2018 which documents his progress throughout the day. Conclusion: Santa missed Australia.<\/p>\n

I wondered how all the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) kids in Australia aged below 7 would cope given the scam had been blown.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I wrote to Santa during the year and was reliably informed that the NORAD facility was probably encountering a glitch when he came down our way.<\/p>\n

And this year, that seems to have been the case. Here he is, flying over Sydney Harbour. Kids are at peace again. That is, until they reach adulthood and find their world has been trashed by neoliberal governments pursuing austerity and not dealing with climate change quickly enough.<\/p>\n