While many of us here are expecting The Wave – this particular wave has already arrived.
Maybe there is something symbolic about the arrival of the wave of immigrants in Europe at this time.
Now let's take a look at the refugee mayhem in Germany as it unfolds.
Well, how many are actually are "riding the wave"?
According to Germany's Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF) 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany in August, bringing the cumulative total for the first eight months of 2015 to 413,535.
Then German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) have counted a record 273.000 people flooding into the country only in September taking the number to 686.000 on October 1.
That was following Chancellor Merkel's controversial decision on September 5 to allow refugees unregistered from Hungary to Germany.
Additionally authorities are estimating another 290.000 people coming to Germany unregistered that they have lost track and count of.
That would take the number of immigrants or asylum seekers to roughly a million for the first three quarters of this year so far.
The numbers for October are not yet in, but SPD party's parliamentary leader Thomas Oppermann told ARD Television's "tagesthemen" on November 2 that of all refugees streaming into Germany currently about 40 % remain unregistered.
While most of the immigrants are arriving in Bavaria, most of them are then distributed by busses and trains to other federal states according to a special ratio.
In many places there is a shortage of basic supplies. Cots, portable housing containers and chemical toilets are largely sold out. There is a shortage of German teachers, social workers and administrative judges. Authorities in many towns are worried about the approaching winter, because an estimated 42,000 of asylum-seekers are still sleeping in tents.
Bavaria's interior minister Herrmann told the press that he suspects that there are thousands of immigrants about in Germany that authorities have no knowledge of.
He knew of refugees that had disappeared overnight from reception centers trying to make their way through Germany on their own.
He insisted that refugees that had not filed for asylum were illegal aliens in Germany and that he could not tolerate what he called "refugee tourism" in this country.
Many refugees quite clearly are not acquainted with the law of the land, having different sets of values and different ways of living.
Quite often the values of their culture clash with the values of the Western culture around them.
Some of them are actually introducing the concept of anarchy to Germany.
Asylum seekers are increasingly using tactics such as hunger strikes and threats of violence in efforts to force German authorities to comply with their demands.
Many migrants, unhappy with living conditions in German refugee shelters, are demanding that they immediately be given their own homes or apartments. Others are angry that German bureaucrats are taking too long to process their asylum applications. Still others are upset over delays in obtaining social welfare payments.
"Human traffickers and the media in their home countries are making promises that do not correspond to reality." — Hans-Joachim Ulrich, regional refugee coordinator in Hamburg, said.
The migrants said they were angry they were being asked to sleep in a huge warehouse rather than in private apartments. Hamburg officials say there are no more vacant apartments in the city. "The city lied to us. We were shocked when we arrived here," a Syrian refugee said.
The German tabloid "BILD" recently gave an overview of false claims smugglers are spreading among potential customers:
Heinrich Trapp, the Dingolfing-Landau district administrator told "Bayern 1" Radio that he deplored a lack of commitment among asylum applicants as far as integration was concerned:
Not only the downtrodden and impoverished are making it to Europe:
Lost your Syrian passport? Don't worry. Dutch journalists can tell you how to get a new one:
In Walldorf, a town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, a group of migrants demanded that local authorities immediately provide them with private apartments because they were tired of living in a refugee shelter with 200 other asylum seekers. The leader of the group, a 46-year-old refugee from Syria, said he expected more from Germany. It was high time for Germans to begin to "treat us like human beings," he said.
In Bad Kreuznach, a family of asylum seekers from Syria made an appointment to view a four-room rental property but refused to see the house because the real estate agent was female. According to real estate agent Aline Kern:
"One of the men, who spoke broken German, said they were not interested in viewing the property because I am a woman, I am blonde, and because I looked the men into their eyes. This was inappropriate. My company should send a man to show the property.
I was taken aback. You want to help and then are sent away, unwanted in your own country."
The Saker offers a pessimistic view on the situation:
Maybe there is something symbolic about the arrival of the wave of immigrants in Europe at this time.
Now let's take a look at the refugee mayhem in Germany as it unfolds.
Austrian police are leading asylum seekers from holding areas in Salzburg to the German border at Freilassing.
Well, how many are actually are "riding the wave"?
According to Germany's Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF) 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany in August, bringing the cumulative total for the first eight months of 2015 to 413,535.
Then German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) have counted a record 273.000 people flooding into the country only in September taking the number to 686.000 on October 1.
That was following Chancellor Merkel's controversial decision on September 5 to allow refugees unregistered from Hungary to Germany.
Additionally authorities are estimating another 290.000 people coming to Germany unregistered that they have lost track and count of.
That would take the number of immigrants or asylum seekers to roughly a million for the first three quarters of this year so far.
The numbers for October are not yet in, but SPD party's parliamentary leader Thomas Oppermann told ARD Television's "tagesthemen" on November 2 that of all refugees streaming into Germany currently about 40 % remain unregistered.
While most of the immigrants are arriving in Bavaria, most of them are then distributed by busses and trains to other federal states according to a special ratio.
In many places there is a shortage of basic supplies. Cots, portable housing containers and chemical toilets are largely sold out. There is a shortage of German teachers, social workers and administrative judges. Authorities in many towns are worried about the approaching winter, because an estimated 42,000 of asylum-seekers are still sleeping in tents.
Bavaria's interior minister Herrmann told the press that he suspects that there are thousands of immigrants about in Germany that authorities have no knowledge of.
He knew of refugees that had disappeared overnight from reception centers trying to make their way through Germany on their own.
He insisted that refugees that had not filed for asylum were illegal aliens in Germany and that he could not tolerate what he called "refugee tourism" in this country.
Authorities in Berlin, desperate for providing temporary accommodation, are preparing an aircraft hangar at former Tempelhof Central Airport, one of the largest structures in the country.
Promotion leaflet provided in places around the Middle East (Click to enlarge)
Many refugees quite clearly are not acquainted with the law of the land, having different sets of values and different ways of living.
Quite often the values of their culture clash with the values of the Western culture around them.
Some of them are actually introducing the concept of anarchy to Germany.
Asylum seekers are increasingly using tactics such as hunger strikes and threats of violence in efforts to force German authorities to comply with their demands.
Many migrants, unhappy with living conditions in German refugee shelters, are demanding that they immediately be given their own homes or apartments. Others are angry that German bureaucrats are taking too long to process their asylum applications. Still others are upset over delays in obtaining social welfare payments.
"Human traffickers and the media in their home countries are making promises that do not correspond to reality." — Hans-Joachim Ulrich, regional refugee coordinator in Hamburg, said.
The migrants said they were angry they were being asked to sleep in a huge warehouse rather than in private apartments. Hamburg officials say there are no more vacant apartments in the city. "The city lied to us. We were shocked when we arrived here," a Syrian refugee said.
The German tabloid "BILD" recently gave an overview of false claims smugglers are spreading among potential customers:
Heinrich Trapp, the Dingolfing-Landau district administrator told "Bayern 1" Radio that he deplored a lack of commitment among asylum applicants as far as integration was concerned:
Not only the downtrodden and impoverished are making it to Europe:
Lost your Syrian passport? Don't worry. Dutch journalists can tell you how to get a new one:
In Walldorf, a town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, a group of migrants demanded that local authorities immediately provide them with private apartments because they were tired of living in a refugee shelter with 200 other asylum seekers. The leader of the group, a 46-year-old refugee from Syria, said he expected more from Germany. It was high time for Germans to begin to "treat us like human beings," he said.
In Bad Kreuznach, a family of asylum seekers from Syria made an appointment to view a four-room rental property but refused to see the house because the real estate agent was female. According to real estate agent Aline Kern:
"One of the men, who spoke broken German, said they were not interested in viewing the property because I am a woman, I am blonde, and because I looked the men into their eyes. This was inappropriate. My company should send a man to show the property.
I was taken aback. You want to help and then are sent away, unwanted in your own country."
* This train with graffiti in Arabic is running in Dresden welcoming refugees
The Saker offers a pessimistic view on the situation:
"Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened!"
