On The Daily Breakdown - The Week That Went: it took four months for Joe Biden to blow up the Middle East, break the US border and bring back inflation - isn't it great the experts are back in charge? And the lefty drips are soiling themselves because ScoMo's appointed three people to the board of the ABC. I explain why the board doesn't matter, why the ABC will remain a bastion of groupthink and no organisation is safe from becoming another tool of the left.

Every so often at The Breakdown, we have a catastrophic IT failure. Usually on the days when the most work has gone into the production. Goddammit. So tomorrow, I'll bring you the Week that Went. Hopefully, the news is happier tomorrow than the news I thought I was bringing you today. And thank you for your patience.

The US is now in terminal decline - it has decided on an economic path that is certain to result in its destruction, just at the time China is in the ascendancy. This has grave implications for Australia.

The media has a whack at ScoMo over the India travel ban but mistells a story to project a narrative, not the truth.

And we check in with the Australian Breastfeeding Association ... and wish we hadn't.

When you make a huge investment, it's hard to walk away from it without a return that justifies the effort. It's known as 'the sunk cost fallacy'. It holds that further investments or commitments are justified because the resources already invested will be lost otherwise.

It is almost always wrong (hence, the 'fallacy' bit).

But it's the reason the Australian Government (and the US Government) has banned travel from India. After so much pain to make Australia COVID-free, the only way COVID will enter the community, as we have seen, is through the so-called quarantine system, which continues to fail. Again. And again.

So why risk bringing 9000 people into Australia from a country being overrun by COVID, and whose health system will, almost certainly, be unable to test potential repatriants in the time required to bring them to Australia with a degree of safety?

And when they ask, 'what is the value of an Australian passport if it no longer brings certain rights?', that's a good question. But as we have all lost considerable rights in the past year, perhaps now is not the right time to start making questions like that. When freedom of speech, movement and association return, then you can ask.

This week has proved that activists are relentless. They will use any misery, import any crisis or event to further their cause, whether it is trying to stir racial issues in Australia, or redefining climate change on the sly to create a perpetual war - the fight never ends.

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Last week, CNN was exposed (yet again) as a propaganda outfit designed to scare the public. Their technical director admitted that with COVID-19 coming to an end they'd move the circus to focus on climate change. Someone at the ABC has been reading their mail.

And meet Australia's dumbest lawyer. Who just happens to be a QC.

Today on the Breakdown, first it was 15 days to stop the spread, then we put hope in the vaccine to return to normal. Now it seems the vaccines will be an annual event - but even then, there are no guarantees. And the petition to ban fairy bread. It was a hoax, and absurd, so why did it take off?

If you watch CNN for the truth or read Scientific American for facts, you are wasting your time. A senior executive at CNN has conceded CNN is a propaganda outfit, and Scientific American has ditched any semblance of objective scientific journalism to drink warmenista Kool-Aid. Journalism is dead.

If you have an opinion on Christine Holgate it'd better be positive or it's misogynistic bullying - the narrative has been built and the media is building the barricades.

And how the left ruins everything. Even a children's cartoon isn't safe from being turned into a propaganda tool.

Australia's (former) top postie appeared before the Senate yesterday and gave an almighty whack to ScoMo over her departure from Australia Post. But she wasn't entirely blameless.

On the plus side, in future, maybe there will be more people spending your money who start to worry about whether they will cop the 'Holgate Treatment'.