Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Oct 11, 2014

  Chinese Communist Gov't 'Many Times More Dangerous' Than ISIS, Says Blind Rights Activist Chen Guangcheng

  The Chinese Communist Party, which has maintained its rule over the people of China for over 60 years, is more dangerous than terrorist groups such as ISIS, well-known blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng implied on Thursday.

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  Oct 10, 2014

  Are American Liberals Selling Out Chinese Women by Turning 'Blind Eye' to One-Child Policy?

  As the communist Chinese government boasts that it has "prevented" more than 400 million lives through forced abortions as a part of its one child per family policy, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, claims that not only has the Obama administration "turned a blind eye" to China's human rights abuses against women, but has also provided millions in funding to an organization that supports the policy.

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  Oct 9, 2014

  Exploiting Poor Prisoners: $120 Will Only Buy a Tube of Toothpaste in Some Prisons

  Advocates for prison inmates and their families are speaking out against a growing network of state prisons across the U.S. that they say are passing on prison revenue costs to the inmates' innocent families and friends. The families are forced to use high-cost, third-party prison banking companies and high-cost phone vendors that share a cut of their profits with state corrections agencies.

• Oct 9, 2014

  UN Report on ISIS: 24,000 Killed, Injured by Islamic State; Children Used as Soldiers, Women Sold as Sex Slaves

  A United Nations report highlighting the human rights violations of the Islamic State's jihadist campaign in Iraq found that while over 24,000 Iraqi civilians have been injured or killed by ISIS in the first eight months of 2014, and the extremists have taken up the practices of recruiting 12- and 13-year-old soldiers and forcing women and girls into sex slavery.

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  Oct 8, 2014

  Mike Huckabee Blasts Republican Leaders, Threatens to Leave Party, for 'Abdicating' on Same-Sex Marriage

  Former Arkansas governor and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee issued a warning to Republican leaders that if they abandon long-held positions against same-sex marriage and abortion to appeal to moderate voters, then he would become an independent.

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  Oct 8, 2014

  FBI Director: Americans That Joined ISIS in Syria Are 'Entitled' to Return to US

  FBI Director James Comey admitted that the "dozen or so" American citizens that are currently fighting with the Islamic State terror group in Syria have the ability and right, as Americans with passports, to return to the homeland.

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  Oct 7, 2014

  James Foley's Mom Says Son's Location Known 6 Months Prior, But Nothing Done Until Too Late

  The parents of slain American journalist James Foley claim they knew the location of their son and 17 other hostages being held by Islamic State militants in Syria over six months before their son's beheading and feel the U.S. government did little to act urgently.

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  Oct 7, 2014

  Baghdad Church Vicar on ISIS Closing in on Capital: Being British, Pro-Israel Makes Me a Big Target

  After attending an event that promoted peace in Jerusalem last weekend, the Rev. Canon Andrew White, the "Vicar of Baghdad", is delaying his return to Baghdad after he was told that his life is in danger as Islamic State forces close in on Iraq's capital city.

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  Oct 7, 2014

  Ex Female ISIS Member: I Saw Teen Boy Crucified, Man Beheaded and Knew I Had to Escape

  Hoping to expose the underlying truth about Islamic State to other females that might be enticed to join the militant movement, a 25-year-old former Syrian school teacher told CNN how she was fooled into joining the Islamic State and why she deserted the militant group by fleeing into Turkey right before the start of the U.S.-led airstrikes in September.

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  Oct 4, 2014

  Unborn Babies in Alabama Can Have Lawyers; ACLU Files Lawsuit to Overturn State's Strict Abortion Laws

  The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn a new Alabama law that forces minors seeking an abortion without parental consent to face trial in order to gain the state's permission to follow through with a legal abortion.