Am long Eur here from 1.1170 levels...let's see if a longer term deal has been reached then this could have several legs. But I may cut around 1.1150 levels as I do not want to put on too much off headlines only. Need to look at details. Edit: I decided to reset my stop to 1.1106, I think the potential upside is worth this risk.
Its clearly a news report which I have pasted and added my own comment. . .you are a little slow..how could I present reports of raging germans at meetings as my own work? Was I there? You are scrapping the barrel...
This is one of those odd things that is widely believed to be true by the public but which has not been proven. Birth defects have been present in humans and their ancestors since animals first appeared on the planet. The normal rate is about 3%. This is a huge number so it's easy to find people who've had children with birth defects and who have some shared experience. When they meet they conclude that the shared experience must have caused the birth defects but the fact is that birth defects are extremely common. For the case of dioxin, the relationship to birth defects (in the studies in the US) is supposed to be due to the exposure of US soldiers in Vietnam. In fact, at this time there are *no* chemical that are known to cause birth defects when the father is exposed to it. (There are chemicals which decrease male fertility but that's not a "birth defect." And there are relationships between father's occupation, smoking, etc., and birth defects that have supposedly been shown, but these are not chemicals and the studies have extreme difficulty eliminating the various biases. Smoking dads tend to marry smoking moms, etc.) Some common chemicals that are known to cause birth defects are alcohol and cocaine. With alcohol, the usual effect is called "fetal alcohol syndrome" and again, it's caused by the *mother* drinking alcohol, not the dad. But if you run a study to see if the father's consumption of alcohol is correlated with birth defects you will easily find that it is. That's because alcoholics tend to stick together. The drinking dads make babies with drinking moms. Other things that cause birth defects are various viruses, especially some of the nasty venereal diseases (that you expect soldiers to get, and then to pass on to their partners), as well as fairly innocuous things like German measles. This is untrue in that the levels of dioxin seen in "soil at US bases" is generally very small compared to the amounts that cause toxicity in animals. Again, if dioxin caused birth defects at the level of say, thalidomide, the relationship would have been proven a long time ago. Instead, if there is any relationship, it's lost in the 3% normal rate of birth defects. People who believe the US is evil also tend to believe that dioxin causes birth defects.
The impression I get is that Europeans have a lot more to complain about. The people you see in the US complaining on the internet are not the majority of the population. This is a rather contented society.
Anti sementic german bigots run free but hey lets get concerned that for a moment someone did not have time to use the quote function, anal retentive to the extreme. Anyway greece firmly locked into its depression and its smooth sailing for a few months until the next crisis, unless you live in germany, or france, where you will be out of a job as early as next year because germany wants you to fund bailouts via an ftt. Rock on.
You mean anti semitic? Not that I am but wanted to confirm what you try to say. It has become increasingly hard to imagine what you are trying to say.
Except that's your opinion which is contested in almost every study. But we know that government agencies, various universities and research projects are all wrong and you're the one who knows the truth. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/5/1220.full https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/birth-defects-caused-agent-orange http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/84-104/