Sunday, October 25th, 2015
Author: Matthias Bartsch, Jan Friedmann, Hubert Gude, Horand Knaup, Ralf Neukirch, Conny Neumann, René Pfister, Christian Reiermann, Michael Sauga, Christoph Schult and Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt
Source: Der Spiegel (Germany)
Publication Date: October 17, 2015 – 02:42 PM
Link: ‘We’re Under Water’: Germany Shows Signs of Strain from Mass of Refugees
Stephan: I have been saying for over a decade that two of the defining trends in the 21st Century are the assimilation of minorities and Gender Equality.
Germany is doing this because they do not have a sustainable birthrate and need workers. It will be interesting to see however, how this plays out, not only in Germany but throughout Europe.
The migration crisis, of course, is yet another unintended consequence arising from the Bush-Cheney necons' destabilization of the Middle East.
Migrants wait behind a police car during their way from the Austrian-German border to the first registration point of the German federal police in the small Bavarian village Wegscheid, southern Germany, on October 12, 2015. Credit: AFP/Christof Stache
The road to the reception camp in Hesepe has become something of a refugees’ avenue. Small groups of young men wander along the sidewalk. A family from Syria schleps a clutch of shopping bags towards the gate. A Sudanese man snakes along the road on his bicycle. Most people don’t speak a word of German, just a little fragmentary English, but when they see locals, they offer a friendly wave and call out, “Hello!”
The main road “is like a pedestrian shopping zone,” says one resident, “except without the stores.” Red-brick houses with pretty gardens line both […]
It is the rich 1%’s problem since they are the ones who are able to help, whether it be in Germany or any other country absorbing these refugees. Time to take their money and put it to good use. The neocon militarization of foreign policy must end and social welfare must begin, now that the world is destabilized to this horrible extent.