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Swabian Separatists Fling Spätzle to Make Their Point

BERLIN — Separatists have escalated a growing conflict in the heart of the German capital. Their weapons of choice were delicious egg noodles, their victim a woman made of bronze.

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A statue of the artist Käthe Kollwitz was defaced by spätzle, a southern specialty. A group calling itself Free Swabylon claimed responsibility, calling for an autonomous district.

A statue of the artist and activist Käthe Kollwitz was defaced with the southern German specialty known as spätzle, the latest episode in an escalating quarrel between Berliners and German migrants from Swabia, a region just west of Munich. A group calling itself Free Swabylon claimed responsibility on Tumblr, calling for an autonomous Swabian district in Berlin, to be known as Swabylon. 

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...fantastic header of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's notorious conservative newspaper writes today:

Just do not get a job right now! You do not have to do it like Diogenes and refuse any kind of work only to live and focus on your animal side. You shouldn't either only live for the work. We can learn from Diogenes how to live with animals, to simplify life and how to get over days that are stretched like tired dogs.(metaphor for boring!)