I want to share with you all what shaped my social conscience, so let’s go back in time.

When I was a child I was exposed to the collapse of USSR and all the consequences afterward. I remember people having no jobs or money to purchase things. This included my family that survived on part-time jobs and growing our own food. I remember the industry collapse and sending soldiers to wars in Eastern Europe. I couldn't understand why we had wars instead of turning back to producing goods which would have provided people with jobs.

This was why I couldn't understand what the role of politicians was. The world seemed to be not much different from the one I read about in my history books – kings, wars over resources, poverty, slavery. I tried to test my assumption at school by mentioning in a history exam that all the governors in the world have been the same, corrupt, suggesting that the bigger country, the more widespread it’s corruption. I was implying Russia to be one of these countries because of its vast land and richness in natural resources. The teacher gave me a low score and summoned my mom to school telling her that I suffered from a lack of patriotism and that I should have learned to appreciate my culture and love my country no matter how bad the situation was. To that my mom just smiled since she never taught me the concepts of right and wrong. I just couldn't comprehend why everyone should have been allegiant to one particular country whilst there is so much to explore in the world! I was curious just about everything and some teachers called me “little annoyer”. Later on in college, my classmates were laughing at me and said I had a globe head because I analyzed everything beyond their comprehension. In the process of learning about anthropological studies, I found out that there were so many different cultures, languages, and people. At that time I was wondering what made up all of those differences.

The first book I read with passion in my life was “The Theory of Relativity” by Albert Einstein. That was the time when my interest in science began as I watched my dad do 'magic' with the old hardware rescued from the bankrupt factory to build a radio phone, a color TV, and motherboards. I was 12 when my father (who was a self-taught maker, mechanic, software/hardware programmer, electrician, inventor, etc.) gave me “The Theory of Relativity” book. He told me  “If you can understand what it is about, you on half of the way to understanding how to solve problems”.

While growing up, I gradually came to understand his words by learning to look into a problem and trying to propose a way to work on it from different angles of my background. It took me many years to comprehend things, years of self-educating and various life experiences in different fields such as language, politics, medicine, environment, science, art (acting and dancing), business, technology, and education.

Since that time, and still today, I've been learning and contributing to multidisciplinary education of how the world works, what shapes people’s values and behavior and how to develop technical and educational solutions for today’s problems the global human species is facing such as climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, etc. The educational solutions include training people to develop a scientific and multidisciplinary thought processes to enable them to solve problems in their lives, in their local or global communities. Most of my life and work experiences molded me into a science and life educator, language teacher, and consultant. The technical solutions include research and development of technologies to combat climate change consequences.

I have also joined a number of international and local projects such as Resource-Based Economy, environmental literacy, global climate change proposals, along with teaching the scientific method by designing and practicing an educational program of critical and creative thinking with elementary and high school students. I currently work on the proposals of a new project which aims to build a global collaborative platform of local communities, organizations and individuals to address the most urgent problems that may affect everyone on the planet. The first stage of the project's implementation is a global survey of available resources.

I was looking on google/moon and found an interesting site on the visible side of the moon towards the southpole. Looks like 2 mountains with a darker side. I have here 2 layers above each other. A gray shadow layer and a color layer with a heights layer transparent on top. The bigger mountain has a blue deep layer on the back which could perhaps hold some water in the shadow. It would of course be more efficient if we could add to these view layers more layers with actual data from the moon.

Grtz, Dirk.

News Project Caters to Portuguese-Speaking Asgardians

BY YOEVELYN RODRIGUEZ

Volunteer Communications Assistant

ASGARDIA – May 14, 2017, 12:46 AM (EST USA, All dates are Gregorian calendar dates). Portuguese-speaking Asgardians now enjoy access to a project developed especially for their needs called Asgardia News Brazil (ANBR).

The ANBR is an autonomous news agency that aims to produce and translate Asgardia-related news for the Portuguese-speaking world.

The site, http://www.asgardianewsbrazil.ru/home/ , is already operational, and one can find all the decrees translated to Portuguese with links to the original documents in English, among other articles of interest.

The team in charge of the initiative is comprised of four talented Asgardians: Ana Godinho, Humberto Guttau, Leonardo Vicente Espadrezani, and Issacar Brunow.

The team lives in Brazil, and they want to operate as an independent entity while still being recognized as a project by Asgardians and for Asgardians.

Issacar Brunow, who is a computer engineering student, said in an email to ANN that he has been fascinated with the Asgardian project and wanted to help as much as he could.

“… When some opportunity emerge[s], I try to help…” Brunow said.  “We operate with translation of articles, decrees, adverts or news of Asgardia.”

Brunow thinks the ANBR has great potential to become a strong source within the Portuguese-speaking Asgardian community.

Ana Godinho is a medical doctor with a very impressive track record.  She has been involved with the Asgardia project since October of 2016 when she first heard Dr. Ashurbeyli’s Paris announcement.

“When Humberto idealized the creation of ANBR, I immediately made myself available for what was needed.” She explained.

Godinho saw the importance of the project immediately.

According to her experience, the majority of the population in Brazil does not speak English. And the number that does speak English does not speak it very fluently -- making Asgardian news and related communications inaccessible for them.

In Asgardia, the Portuguese-speaking population is about 5 percent, according to the reported statistics.

“This isolates more than 5% of the Asgardians in the decisions of an entire nation.” Godinho said.  “Obviously, one would have to do something to avoid discrimination.  “These discriminations that are in the concept of the Asgardian nation [sic] as positions to avoid.”

Leonardo Vicente Espadrezani is a lawyer who specializes in commercial and criminal law.  He is a very active member in the Asgardian forums and hopes the Asgardian nation will grow and develop into a reality for all Asgardians

In his email, he said: “… When Humberto called me and commented on the project he had in mind – the ANBR (Asgardia News Brazil) -- and asked if I would like to join him, I didn’t think twice and jumped in.”

Espadrezani envisions that one day ANBR will become the official outlet for Asgardian media in Brazil, but for now he is just eager to work within his small team to help the project grow.

“Now we finally have the chance to allow all the thousands of Asgardians and future Asgardians (especially Brazilians) who only speak Portuguese to understand, learn and join the great and massive Asgardia project.” Espadrezani concluded.

Humberto Guttau is the initiator of the project. He is a university student seeking a degree in business administration.

“My initiative and project come basically from the conception [sic] that we certainly need independent media to get Asgardia developed.” Guttau told ANN in an email earlier this week.

Guttau does not want ANBR to be an official channel, but an independent channel with clear ties to Asgardia simply because he feels that to become official he will need to expand his team.

He said, “We are too short on staff members to go official now - this is our main problem. Nevertheless, we would love to… In the future.”

If you speak Portuguese and are interested in participating in the project as a volunteer, please contact ANBR at asgardianewsbrazil@gmail.com .

Posted by

Yoevelyn Rodriguez,

Comm Assistant Coordinator,

Civic.Asgardia