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The United States Meets Europe Forum

This sounds like a really interesting Seminar for a Scandinavian living in the USA.

The United States Meets Europe: A Forum For Young Leaders (USAME)
"New Priorities, New Strategies:
Soft Power, Cultural Diplomacy and American Foreign Policy"
(Washington, D.C. & New York City, April 18th -24th, 2010)

The United States Meets Europe: A Forum for Young Leaders is an active network of individuals interested in strengthening and supporting transatlantic relations. The next USAME Weeklong Seminar will take place in Washington, D.C., & New York City from 18th - 24th April 2010. In addition to looking in greater detail at the history and development of cultural diplomacy, the next USAME Weeklong Seminar will look at how the priorities of U.S. foreign policy have changed since the end of the Cold War and are continuing to evolve. This will provide a framework for discussions on contemporary transatlantic relations, and for comparing and contrasting foreign policy priorities in the U.S. and Europe.

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Cookie cutter kids and state sponsored kidnappings

The Dominic Johansson case I wrote about earlier is still getting attention from the Home Schooling Legal Defence Association, HSDLA, here in the USA. In their latest news release, headlined "Court Upholds State-Sponsored "Kidnapping" of Homeschooling Boy" an attorney named Roger Kiska who represents the Alliance Defense Fund, ADF, was interviewed and said the following about the Swedish school system; “What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid,”

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