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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by John Wayne. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. John Wayne was considered one of the greatest actors in history. Nicknamed "Duke," Wayne's portrayal of characters from tough, fair-minded western men to seasoned military officers resonated in his personal life, full of respect of our country and its conservative traditions and patriotism.Note: This Quotefall actually contains two short quotes by John Wayne, who was always one to communicate effectively in few words. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply...

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Traffic jams are returning to cities in China, and shopping centres, bars and nightclubs are reopening after weeks of lockdown as the government declared victory over coronavirus. Normal social and economic order “must be fully and urgently restored”, decreed president Xi Jinping. China is now seeking to take an international leadership role in the war against Covid-19. A concerted wave of articles, social media posts and public announcements have appeared in a wide variety of languages to laud Beijing’s achievement. “China’s signature strength, efficiency and speed in this fight has been widely acclaimed”, declared foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian. “A...

London (AFP) – The British government admitted on Sunday that the coronavirus lockdown could last a “significant” time as a leading expert warned it could be in place until June. “I can’t make an accurate prediction but everyone I think does have to prepare for a significant period when these measures are still in place,” cabinet minister Michael Gove told the BBC. Britons have been told to stay inside wherever possible to limit the spread of COVID-19, joining millions of people on lockdown worldwide. The measure was introduced amid warnings that infection rates were spiralling, and new figures Saturday revealed...

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AN AER LINGUS cargo flight from China carrying €28 million worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) for Irish healthcare workers has landed at Dublin Airport. The Airbus A330-302 cargo plane was loaded with PPE including masks, gowns and goggles in Beijing before making the over 8,000 km flight back to Ireland. The shipment from Beijing, worth an estimated €28 million, is made up of 11 million masks, 2.3 million eye protections, 2.4 million gowns, and 9 million gloves. This is the first delivery flight of the HSE’s €208 million order of PPE from China. The first ten cargo flights of...

VIENTIANE -- A team of Chinese medical experts, along with medical materials, arrived in Lao capital Vientiane by a chartered plane Sunday morning to assist Laos to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Somdy Douangdy, Lao deputy prime minister and chair of the Task Force Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, and Chinese Ambassador to Laos Jiang Zaidong received the Chinese medical experts at the Wattay International Airport in Vientiane. The Chinese medical team includes experts in various fields such as infection prevention and control, intensive care, epidemics, and laboratory testing. They also brought along with medical supplies. The team came to...

Gatherings have been further restricted to two people, under "radical" and unprecedented measures agreed to by National Cabinet to slow the spread of coronavirus. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the previous gathering limit of 10 people had been cut to two, after meeting with state and territory leaders on Sunday night. Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the changes were strong but necessary. "This is radical", he said. "The vast majority of Australians have done the right thing in the last week". "We have seen huge evidence of that, but have also seen some very silly behaviour of people who...

China sent an expert team and a large shipment of medical equipment to the United Kingdom on Saturday to help in the fight against COVID-19. The team, sent from East China' Shandong province, comprises 15 experts and doctors who are specialists in disease control, traditional Chinese and Western medicine, psychology, nursing, and other fields. In addition to conducting epidemiological investigation and epidemic prevention education in the UK, they will also participate in disease prevention and treatment work. They brought with them up to 17.5 tons of medical supplies, including traditional Chinese medicine, personal protective equipment, epidemic prevention educational materials, and...

I don't believe we are being told everything. Until we know, we could just as easily die from the cure, as from the disease “Your mind picks up signals very fast when something is not right…you don’t always have to figure it out completely, you just know.”—unknown author Something is not right. Too many things do not add up. Both Covid-19 and the influenza virus are contagious viruses that cause respiratory illness. The flu in America, so far this season, according to the CDC, has caused about 46 million illnesses, 550,000 hospitalizations and about 41,000 deaths. And yet, we have...

You must also be aware that the potential for many of these uprisings will have been well planned, funded and orchestrated, with very few initially spontaneous But, the timely question that must be asked is, how will all the liberal-governments, with their propaganda-driven-media, now gingerly back away from their self-generated hysteria, along with their de facto Martial Law—before it is too late? In an earlier piece, I used the term ‘exploitation’ for when the liberal state and local governments thought they found a silver-lining in the COVID-19 crisis as another opportunity to take down their abhorred Orange Man. These same...

Alex “Alejandro” Roubian has been attending press conferences with Governor Murphy since becoming elected. In that time, he acquired press pass instructions from the New Jersey Press Association. Per the New Jersey Press Association: “A New Jersey police credential is not required nor intended for use related to covering municipal, county or state government meetings. Nor is it for access to events, e.g. sports and entertainment. In such cases, an identification card issued by the employing news organization may be presented.” He has attended numerous events as a news reporter and questioned the governor many times. Alejandro’s content, videos, and...

Scoring cheap political points is always distasteful, but it is especially offensive when lives are in danger The United States has now become the world leader in a rather unfortunate category with the largest number of coronavirus victims. This is due to the vast expansion of tests that have been made available in the United States. In contrast, the reports out of China cannot be trusted. As of Saturday March 28, there were 121,117 confirmed cases and 2,010 deaths associated with the coronavirus in the United States. The area with the fifth highest total of deaths in the country is...

For chicken hatcheries, the weeks leading up to Easter are always the busiest. Spring is in the air for people shaking off long winters spent watching Netflix under a blanket who had hoped to emerge into a world of budding flowers, green grass and baby animals. While spring might be calling people to congregate outside, health authorities are saying the opposite. Many schools and businesses are closed, and states and cities are implementing “shelter in place” orders to keep cases of the new coronavirus from skyrocketing. The combination of an enormous rise in unemployment, anxious free time for those not...

Spain awoke to its third week under near-total lockdown on Sunday, as the government met to approve a strengthening of measures and the coronavirus death toll rose by a record 838 cases overnight to 6,528. Second only to Italy in fatalities, Spain also saw infections rise to 78,797 from 72,248 the day before. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, in a televised address to the nation on Saturday night, announced that all non-essential workers must stay at home for two weeks, the latest government measure in the fight against coronavirus. He said workers would receive their usual salaries but would have to...

In general, it’s sad when people lose their jobs, but not this lady. I hope she suffers perpetual economic destitution because that’s what she deserves. She’s trash. Period. And no one should shed a tear for her—no one. Apparently, if you’re a Trump supporter, you deserve to die or something. Well, she pretty much wished that in a Facebook post that ended with her receiving a pink slip from the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. She was a top executive there and once again we have a case where liberals think their dirty laundry aired on...

The Dutch government has ordered a recall of around 600,000 masks out of a shipment of 1.3 million from China after they failed to meet quality standards. The defective masks had already been distributed to several hospitals currently battling the COVID-19 outbreak, news agency AFP and Dutch media reported. The Dutch Health Ministry has kept the rest of the shipment on hold. An inspection revealed that the FFP2 masks did not protect the face properly or had defective filter membranes. The fine filters stop the virus from entering the mouth or nose. The masks failed more than one inspection. "A...

Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News show got a late start on Saturday night due to “technical difficulties” — but when the former New York state judge did appear nearly 15 minutes into her show, her usually perfectly coifed hair appeared disheveled and she seemed to be tipsy in her verbal delivery. “We apologize for the technical difficulties,” Pirro said when she finally appeared about a quarter into the one-hour broadcast after anchor Jackie Ibanez covered for her initial absence. This was enough for the liberal Twitter community to attack her and say that she was drunk. One Twitter member even slowed...

The Western New York regional director for both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Kirsten Gillibrand has lost her job at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute after telling Trump supporters on Facebook that if COVID-19 is just a hoax they should refuse ventilators and just “chew some ibuprofen” if they’ve contracted the virus. The Buffalo News reports that Laura Krolczyk, Roswell Park’s vice president for external affairs, was fired after an investigation into her remarks, while a co-worker, Lisa LaTrovato, is on leave for her comments