The Odds of Having Paranoid Schizophrenia With Lower IQ?

 Well....it's a numbers thing.  A lower IQ is linked to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia.

This relates to a 3.7-percent increase in risk for every single-point drop in an IQ test. So if you considered 100 average, and you had a 80 IQ....that means  20 x 3.7-percent....70-percent higher chance.

In recent weeks....I've hyped the problems of low-IQ folks in making rational decisions and relating to threats of violence.

Each time you note a member of society doing something irrational and threatening....you can generally start a betting pool....something related to a lower IQ has occurred.

Interview

 This AM....interview via RTL-news....with the Interior Minister....Alexander Dobrindt (CSU).

At some point.....it's talked about over the weekend terror attack in Berlin: “How can a sentence actually be suspended on probation for someone who has been identified as a threat?” which is the quote given by Dobrindt.  Obviously, how the Abdul-character was 'free'....makes no sense.

The Abdul's lawyers?  Obviously, they found the legal framework to convince a judge that you could go through a recovery process to lose your radicalization.

I'll just say....as the weeks go by, and more questions get public attention....there's intense pressure building up.  But I said that five years ago as well.  It helps to have stupid people....go through Amnesia....over and over.

Elon Interview

 Last night....I sat  and completed the 90-odd-minute interview of Elon Musk with Zanny Minton Beddoes, the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist.  You can find it on YouTube.

I'll make three observations.

First, I don't 'HATE' the news media or journalists.  I'd say if anything....over the past dozen years....I've been very skeptical of the stories laid out....or the narrative told.  Since AI came along....I can hit the analyze-button, and check out the facts (if any).

Second, once I've noted that you are slanting the story....intentionally....my trust goes to zero.  I might still read your piece....but I'm very unlikely to buy into the story.

Third, I don't really believe that journalists have any special skills or talents. Maybe in the period up to the 1990s.....there were some with talents....but that era has ended.

The interview worth viewing?  Oh yeah.  

Just A Odd Number

 Focus published a piece....experts in Berlin-City....say that from the entire community...there are in the range of 1,940 radicalized folks who seem  to be violence-prone extremists...of the Islamic religion.  That's Berlin....alone.

Nation-wide?  The number suggested is 9,000.

The problem? At some point....folks start to ask security questions, and how police efforts can work?

In some ways....it begs the question....is this intentional...to create a bigger problem than the current economy? 

Three Things

 1.  Did some German gal  at the vigil for the Berlin Pride parade victims utter that she hoped it was "not an Arab-Muslim, but a White Christian person"?

Well....yeah.  This was a spokesperson for the LGBTQ folks....talking in the hours after the attack.

My impression....she really wanted to discount the Abdul-guy as the terrorist.   Oddly....it's hard to find a German Christian guy....who'd fit the terror angle (my belief).

2. Spiegel reporter talked to the Abdul-guy's dad.  He says the son was utterly brain-washed.  

One odd factor....Abdul-guy had washed-out of occupational skill training.  He was mostly working as a driver or security guard....no  real path in life.

3.  Folks at the garden-area where he was cornered (in Berlin).....report six shoots by the federal-police unit...upon encountering the guy with a knife (described as a machete). 

Wrapping Up The Abdul-Story

 Total damage, 1 dead (gal) and 29 wounded from the terror-car-attack (Sat evening)..

The Abdul-guy stayed hid for most of Sunday.....cops had a suspicious activity thing they reacted upon....Spandau area.....garden-plot community.  Federal police approach....guy reacts with a knife....cops shoot him dead. 

Most of the story wrapped up.  

Questions over the detention period....deal offered for him to deradicalize via some 'successful' program (he'd attended two sessions of the 26 mandated).  

My impression....he wanted to serve some great purpose in life, and by joining ISIS....on that attempted trip to Lebanon, and onto Syria....he would have been part o the 'team'.  Once denied, and sent back to  Germany....the dream collapsed.

Two consequences left?

First, back in May....some polling group went to LGTBQ folks about their voting pattern.  Bulk (around 19-percent) vote AfD (no explanations for this).  After this attack....that national trend with  LGTBQ might ram up to 25-perecent (my humble belief).

Second, Berlin-City is set for a state-vote early in September.  Poll done 2 weeks ago....shows AfD slightly in the lead....around 19/20 percent....with Greens, SPD, Linke and CDU fighting for 16 to 18 percent. I might go and suggest that the SPD and CDU folks will lose around 5 points.....with AfD getting fairly near 25-percent of the vote for the state-election.

Final observation....reading through the limited details of Abdul's life.....he wasn't much of a success story, or going anywhere.  He seems drawn to a cult-like existence.

On the deradicalization BS....some Germans buy into the concept. 

Court Chatter

Robert Koch Institute numbers....5,000, they say those folks in June died due to heat.

Retiree Markus Roach (logically) filed charges against Chancellor Merz and ministers....for "failure to provide possible assistance against the threat posed by extreme weather events."  

I paused over this.

Legal system able to handle this?  Typically, you'd have a name and a death certificate. 

How you'd prevent future deaths?  Tons of tax revenue. 

Things From Koln Trip

 First....it  was  some kind of Goth-fest....probably 10,000 Gothic dressed folks....from teens to age 70. 

Second....I noted two protest parades...one for a pro-Iran/pro-Mullah/anti-Trump group.  Other was pro-Iran/anti-Mullah/pro-Trump group.

Third, the hotel-parking-garage....deep under the place....was  not made for normal cars.  I had high anxiety pulling in/parking.