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As Jim often says, no one ever made a dime by panicking ; it's not an investment strategy. Neither is indiscriminately buying every stock in our portfolio in a situation like this. Around noon ET, we alerted members, keeping with Jim's Sunday night commentary , that we were putting some of our large cash position to work and buying Estee Lauder (EL) and Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD).

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“I think what we are seeing is the junta running out of capability in certain ways and that its ground forces are being fairly effectively checked by the opposition. Therefore, it’s resorting to air power – and pretty much the indiscriminate use of air power in which a lot of civilians are suffering.

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During the height of the insurgency in the early 1980s, some Sikh separatists in Punjab committed a series of human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians, indiscriminate bombings and attacks on minority Hindus, according to Human Rights Watch.

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Regional and global cooperation are at the core of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference. The COVID-19 pandemic truly underscored the interconnectivity of the world, revealing how global challenges can transcend borders and affect nations indiscriminately . As countries navigate the complexities of the post-pandemic era, international cooperation has become increasingly vital to address pressing issues such as climate change and economic recovery. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, nations must work together to address shared challenges and seize opportunities for mutual benefit.

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Myanmar’s military has been accused of indiscriminate killings of civilians as it engages in major offensives to suppress the armed resistance opposed to its takeover of the government two years ago.

Logo 2023-03-27 Al Jazeera

Images of Baghdad’s night sky lit up by flames, as bombs were indiscriminately dropped more regularly than a ticking clock on the City of Peace, are forever etched in our memories. For weeks, nights turned to day, as Iraqis would pray to make it to the morning alive.

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The U.S. policy of indiscriminately deporting asylum-seekers at the border lacks due process. Some children have been forcibly separated from their parents, while others have been confined to over crowded spaces plagued by disease, abuse and inadequate food and clothing – severely harming their rights and physical and mental well-being.

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The rocket body had completed its mission and been abandoned in orbit, left to return to the surface in an uncontrolled way. It posed an indiscriminate threat to people across the globe — on the ground, at sea, and in aircraft in flight. The probability of a lethal impact was very small, but the consequences could have been severe.

Logo 2023-03-29 The Conversation

Through decades, US foreign wars have killed hundreds of thousands indiscriminately , forced millions to flee, bulldozed international law and committed human rights violations and war crimes across regions in addition to razing critical public infrastructure such as schools, farms, hospitals and other infrastructure. Wars remained “the American way of life” to project power and expand influence; it continues to be the core of the US foreign policy to reestablish its world hegemony in the guise of freedom and liberty.

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Two match officials were jailed although an investigation team set up by Widodo had concluded that the tear gas was the main cause of the crowd surge. Indonesia’s human rights body came to the same conclusion. The use of tear gas, banned by FIFA within stadiums, was “ indiscriminate ” and “excessive”, the rights body said.

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“The deaths of 132 people in state custody, arbitrary detention, mass criminal prosecutions and the indiscriminate imprisonment of tens of thousands of people are incompatible with an effective, fair and lasting public security strategy,” Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said in a statement.

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The Nashville shooter who killed six people one week ago acted “totally alone,” and wrote detailed plans in journals written months before smashing through an entrance, firing 152 rounds and indiscriminately killing three 9-year-old students and three adults, police said Monday. Wp Get the full experience.

Logo 2023-04-03 The Washington Post

A counter-narrative emerged one which overlooked Russia’s indiscriminate targeting of Syrian civilians in favour of hostility towards the US for its clumsy handling of the conflict and the Syrian refugees who risked their lives to flee for safer shores.

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Unfortunately, the indiscriminate use of force by the U.S. against the civilian airship was clearly an overreaction. As Chinese media outlet Global Times has pointed out, such an action of the U.S. was just like "shooting a mosquito with cannon" and wasted taxpayers' money. For a civilian airship, the U.S. dramatically sent in its Air Force F-22 Raptor to shoot it down. Later, the U.S. shot down three more aircraft over northern Alaska, Canada's Yukon Territory, and Lake Huron in Michigan, using missiles that were worth about {$}400,000 each.

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Meanwhile, the war continues to have a profound impact on children. Hundreds have been killed in indiscriminate attacks, schools have been disrupted, some two million have been made refugees or are living in extreme poverty. The deportation of children simply piles misery onto misery.

Logo 2023-04-06 The Conversation

“Your Majesty, in his paternal solicitude,” one edict reads, “wants for every Haytian, indiscriminately , the poor as well as the rich, to have the ability to become the owner of the lands of our former oppressors.”


In the age of social media, it is difficult to avoid images and videos being shared in near real-time when a tragedy occurs. However, there are risks and dangers involved in indiscriminately sharing them.

Logo 2023-04-10 Channel NewsAsia

The Louisville bank shooting highlighted the indiscriminate reach of the relentless march of U.S. gun violence: Like Beshear, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg — who was the target of a shooting at his campaign office in 2021 — said he, too, was good friends with one of those killed, 63-year-old Thomas Elliott. State Sen. David Yates (D), also tweeted that he knew a victim.

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'This heinous act by the terrorist military is yet another example of their indiscriminate use of extreme force against innocent civilians, constituting a war crime," the opposition National Unity Government said in a statement. The NUG calls itself the country's legitimate government, in opposition to the army. The office being opened Tuesday was part of its administrative network.

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The NUG condemned the attack, calling it "yet another example of (the military's) indiscriminate use of extreme force against civilians".

Logo 2023-04-11 The Independent

Myanmar's pro-democracy government-in-exile, the National Unity Government, condemned the attack, calling it "yet another example of (the military's) indiscriminate use of extreme force against civilians".

Logo 2023-04-11 Reuters

Myanmar’s military has been accused of indiscriminate killings of civilians as it engages in major offensives to suppress armed resistance to its takeover.

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The airstrike could constitute a war crime, said the National Unity Government, a parallel administration that was formed in the wake of the coup. “The heinous act by the terrorist military is yet another example of their indiscriminate use of extreme force,” the NUG Defense Ministry said in a statement.

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Attacks on Ukraine's health system are deliberate and indiscriminate

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Nguyen Thi Thanh, 8 years old at the time, says the marines gunned down residents indiscriminately . She and her family members fled into an underground bomb shelter.

Logo 2023-04-12 NPR

“Initial information says some army person opened indiscriminate firing on others. Preliminary no sabotage is suspected but details are awaited,” said SSP Khurana.

Logo 2023-04-12 The Independent

Myanmar has been plunged into chaos since the military’s power grab and its crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrating against its rule. The UN and rights groups say soldiers in Myanmar have engaged in thousands of indiscriminate killings, arbitrary arrests and torture.

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Brazil, the country with the largest stake in this issue (around two thirds of the Amazon rainforest falls onto its territory) was largely absent from the discussion under former President Jair Bolsonaro, who dismantled climate legislation and favored indiscriminate deforestation.

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“We noted that many media outlets have pointed out that these leaked US military documents clearly show the deep involvement of the US in the Ukraine crisis. They also show once again that the US has long used its tech edge to conduct indiscriminate secret theft, surveillance and eavesdropping on countries in the world, including its allies,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters on Wednesday.

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Revellers - many of them soaked to the skin - walked through a half-kilometre (0.3 miles) long stretch in Bangkok's tourist hub of Khaosan Road, indiscriminately firing water guns and dancing to music blaring from kerbside establishments.

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The United States’ adversaries have sought to exploit the awkward moment. It was only months ago that U.S. officials were condemning Beijing for its prying eyes, in the form of spy balloons drifting over multiple continents. On Wednesday, China’s foreign ministry spokesman turned the tables, insisting that the United States owed the international community an explanation for its “ indiscriminate secret theft, surveillance and eavesdropping on countries in the world, including its allies.”

Logo 2023-04-13 The New York Times

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people at the idea of an indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races; and Judge Douglas evidently is basing his chief hope upon the chances of his being able to appropriate the benefit of this disgust to himself. If he can, by much drumming and repeating, fasten the odium of that idea upon his adversaries, he thinks he can struggle through the storm.


For example, it says freedom of expression is guaranteed but only if it does not infringe on “morality” or “public order”. This, of course, has allowed the arbitrary and indiscriminate use of this provision to muzzle the Iraqi media and government critics.

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“Sadly, he did not abide by (the ceasefire),” he added. “You can hear right now the attempts to storm the Army headquarters, and indiscriminate mortar attacks. He’s using the humanitarian pause to continue the fight.”

Logo 2023-04-17 CNN News

Given the indiscriminate way in which ChatGPT gathers data, it can draw on a huge range of source material, including social media, blog posts, product reviews, chat forums and even email threads if publicly available.

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