Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Nov 29, 2014

  ISIS Is Using Children as 'Human Shields', Forcing Them to 'Donate Blood' to Injured Militants, UN Reports

  As United Nations statistics estimate that over 5 million children's lives have been affected in Syria as a result of the Islamic State's ongoing jihad, U.N. officials are saying that ISIS has created new and more barbaric ways to utilize children in the conflict, including using them as human shields and forcing them to donate blood to injured jihadis.

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  Nov 28, 2014

  ISIS Extremists Vow to Send Militants to Fight Ferguson Police Forces Once Rioters Pledge Allegiance to Caliph

  British jihadis now fighting for the Islamic State in Syria have tweeted a letter urging rioters in Ferguson, Missouri, to pledge their "allegiance" to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In return, militants would be sent to "shed" their own "blood" to help fight police forces.

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  Nov 26, 2014

  Escaped Yazidi Refugees: ISIS Cut Throats of Babies; Killed Over 100 Kids in One Yazidi Village

  A number of Yazidi refugees now living in various refugee camps across Iraq have detailed, in recent interviews with The Daily Mail, how their family members were lost at the hands of the Islamic State while trekking across Northern Iraq in search of the safety and peace found in Kurdish-protected refugee centers.

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  Nov 26, 2014

  Human Rights Campaign Co-Founder and 'Friend' of Obama Arrested, Facing 2 Counts of Third-Degree Sodomy of 15-Y-O Boy

  The co-founder of America's largest LGBT political advocacy organization, Human Rights Campaign, has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a teenage boy.

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  Nov 26, 2014

  Ben Carson Says Adults Must Teach Inner-City Youth to Respect Authority; Recounts His Own Run-In With Police

  In the wake this week's grand jury decision not to indict the Ferguson, Missouri, cop who shot and killed an unarmed African-American teenager, potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson claims that young males living in inner cities need to be taught how to respond better to authority.

• Nov 25, 2014

  UN Expert: ISIS Received Up to $45 Million in Ransom Payments Over the Past Year

  A United Nations terrorism expert said on Monday that the Islamic State terrorist group has made between $35 million and $45 million off of ransom payments in the past year alone, the Associated Press reports.

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  Nov 25, 2014

  Americans Evenly Split on Legalizing Gay Marriage in States, Midterm Exit Polls Show

  Although Gallup polling from May indicates that American public opinion strongly favors legally recognizing same-sex marriage, 2014 midterm election exit polls found that voters were evenly divided on the issue of gay marriage.

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  Nov 25, 2014

  ISIS Militants Are Already Getting Their Hands on Recently Supplied US Weapons in Iraq

  Weapons recently supplied by the United States to Iraqi military forces and tribal militias are already ending up in the hands of Islamic State militants, Iraqi officers and lawmakers are claiming.

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  Nov 25, 2014

  ISIS' Global Network Expands: At Least 12 Military Allies in 9 Countries Beyond Iraq, Syria

  The Islamic State terrorist organization now has at least 12 known military allies, operating in nine countries outside of Iraq and Syria, that have publicly pledged their allegiances to the caliphate of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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  Nov 24, 2014

  Ben Carson Clarifies Stance on Gun Control: Law-Abiding Citizens Should Be Allowed to Own 'Any Kind of Weapon They Want to Protect Themselves'

  Potential Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson reassured potential conservative supporters last week that he opposes any kind of ban on assault weapons and that he would firmly defend the full extent of the Second Amendment if he were to be elected to a political office.