Blog Heap of Links for the day 3 June 2015

Usaamah Rahim, who was fatally shot after waving a military knife at law enforcement officers in Boston, was originally plotting to behead Pamela Geller… radicalized by ISIS and other extremists, decided instead to target… police…

…Kerry's meeting, in which the alleged assassination attempt took place, was with Gulmurod Khalimov, a senior Tajik police commander, trained in the United States, who announced his defection to Islamic State in a video released last week… Khalimov was well aware of State Department security procedures and he used the knowledge to get another member of his entourage into the secret meeting with Kerry, with the intention of assassinating him… report cited communications intercepted by Russian intelligence from France, the US and Switzerland as confirming that two other people were shot in the incident, one of them fatally.…

Iraqi police chiefs fear 500 children kidnapped by ISIS militants in recent weeks will be brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers or child soldiers for the Islamic extremists.

The children were taken from Iraq's Anbar and Diyala provinces, and taken to the violent group's bases so they can be used in 'terror attacks', according to authorities in the two regions.…

A new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that US Secretary of John Kerry was “gravely wounded” yesterday (31 May) after a secret meeting he was holding with a top Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) commander erupted in gunfire in what Federation intelligence analysts are calling an “obvious assassination attempt”. …

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23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. …

A new report claims that Oklahoma has more police-involved fatalities per capita than any other state so far this year. … most of the people killed by police were armed at the time of the incident. …

AUSTIN… officers were trying to talk to a driver around 2 a.m.… When officers tried to get closer to him, he jumped back in his car and said, “I think I’m going to set the car and fire…” … a loud pop is heard and fire engulfed the vehicle.… Police say they believe the driver of the vehicle was trying to commit suicide.…

The Swedish government is considering a plan that would force municipalities to accept a specific number of incoming refugees. It is hoped that the proposal will provide a fairer distribution of the refugee burden, and lead to better conditions for the migrants.

In other Sweden-related news, three “Swedes” have reportedly succeeded in traveling to the Islamic State to wage jihad, after several failed attempts.

…Can you imagine someone you've known all your life as 'Dad' suddenly becomes a woman? Not everyone celebrates that kind of diversity.…

…On this day in 2013 the trial of United States Army private Bradley Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks began in Fort Meade, Maryland. He later changed his name to Chelsea and decided he was a woman as well as a traitor. …