We have a new leader who has reached 1000 votes. It is Seref Kaplan from Turkey. You can find his profile here: https://asgardia.space/en/user/66216/profile/view/# . He is leading the platform of the Turkish language or also named district number 3. You can find district #3 here: https://asgardia.space/en/elections-districts/Turkish/ . As our previous leader Ross Cheeseright from the English district #1 has chosen for a non-parliamentarian approach to his projects to help Asgardia, it is Seref Kaplan who
is leading the parliamentarian elections in votes. Congratulations Seref Kaplan.

Greetings, Dirk.

Dear Friends,

They say that you should go big or go home. We choose to go big.

This year, ROOM has expanded to 25 countries and is now sold in almost 700 stores.

This year, Asgardia , the first-ever space nation, has:

- Established its territory in space by deploying the Asgardia-1 satellite into autonomous flight in low Earth orbit.

- Reached a population of 155,000 people (who have accepted its Constitution) - and continues to grow

- Embarked on the parliamentary elections, with almost 1,600 candidates vying for leadership positions

As we wish you and your loved ones Happy Holidays, we encourage you to go big with us in 2018.

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From twitter: "I LOVE how the last one really could be anybody! Cheers to these pioneering women and cheers to those that are to come!!"

https://twitter.com/hashtag/womeninscience?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

We had ready this big suppository  to host the European Medicines Agency in Barcelona but... it was no possible. We´ll try to think another idea to make useful this building. Maybe we will launch it to the space?

Teníamos preparado este gran supositorio para alojar a la Agencia Europea de los Medicamentos en Barcelona pero... no fue posible. Trataremos de pensar otra idea para darle utilidad a este edificio. ¿Tal vez lo lanzaremos al espacio?

Hi all,

I love the idea behind Asgardia and I want to examine for myself what it is and if it is something for me. A nation without a history is like a newborn. A tabula rasa. It has the potential to become anything. I would not want to miss te opportunity to be part of such an endeavor.

I am a male 57 years old. I am currently studying and working to support and help people with mental handicaps and personality disorders in the forensic field. I am interested in science and new developments like Asgardia. I speak Dutch natively, English fluent, German fluent and bits and pieces Portuguese.

I am excited to be here and hope to make many new friend.

Accepteer me

Ik ben ik

probeer me niet te veranderen.

Veroordeel me niet, of sla me niet teneer.

Accepteer me voor wat ik ben.

Nee....je hoeft het niet met me eens te zijn

maar accepteer me.

Want ik ben totaal in wat ik ben.

Ik heb mijn fouten, ik maak mijn vergissingen

maar dat is wie ik ben.

Perfect zal ik nooit zijn.

Sta me toe om ongeremd te zijn.

Dring mij niet een gevoel op

Wat ik niet voel.

Accepteer me wanneer ik me goed voel,

Zoals ik jou ook zal accepteren

wanneer jij je goed voelt.

Sla me niet teneer.....

Of maak mij ongelukkig over mijzelf

Ik ben ik

En ik ben wat ik ben......

mezelf

vertaald door siem ;-)

~ACCEPT ME~

I AM I

DO NOT CHANGE ME

CONDEMN ME, NOR PUT ME DOWN.

ACCEPT ME FOR WHAT I AM.

NO...YOU NEED NOT AGREE WITH ME

BUT ACCEPT ME.

FOR I AM TOTAL IN BEING.

I HAVE MY FAULTS, I HAVE MY GUILTS

BUT THAT IS WHO I AM.

PERFECT I WILL NEVER BE.

ALLOW ME TO BE UNIHIBITED.

DO NOT PRESSURE ME INTO FEELING

WHAT I DO NOT FEEL.

ACCEPT ME WHEN I AM FLYING HIGH

AS I HAVE ACCEPTED YOU

WHEN YOU WERE FLYING HIGH.

DO NOT PUT ME DOWN...

NOR MAKE ME UNHAPPY ABOUT ME.

I AM I...

AND I AM WHAT I AM...

ME.

LARRY S. CHENGGES

Give and Receive and do not take and demand. Its one of fundamentals of a loving and peaceful world.
Lets start with earth, if we do nothing else then taking away from  this beautiful world, the earth will
be no longer a beautiful place as it will give us no longer beautiful things. If we do nothing else then making
war and conflicts, then the solutions for peace will be useless as we will only get a more aggressive world.
If we do not care about hunger and diseases then we will receive nothing else in return.

So if we want to make the world a better place then we have to start with ourselves and think about the future.
This is exactly what we can do in Asgardia. We are people from  all over the world and we have all our own
problems with this today world. We can build a place where we can discuss and brainstorm over the world's
problems and find solutions and idea's to make this a more loving and peaceful place.

Asgardia will raise above the earth and we are in the best situation to give good examples. So if we can make
our own world better then the existing one, then we are on the right track. I want to insert here a word of
thank you for Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli to give us all this opportunity for free and with good will. If we grab this
chance with both hands and do our efforts for it in whatever way then we will have a good future. At least
we and the people of the future can say that we have tried and have put the effort in it as good example.

As we will go on with this in mind while we go into space for what ever reason we want to go, then i see
a beautiful future for earth and the humankind. We only have to find an answer to a difficult question:
what can we give to the universe to have a peaceful and loving live in space.

Grtz, Dirk.

Moral excellence is one of the foundations to swiftly move forward in the right direction as a species. Together with knowledge and hard (team)work, nothing would stop us.

I would be happy to receive your vote. This way I will be able to help Asgardia become an example for the rest of humanity.

Kind regards,

Wesley Heylbroeck
[Engineer interested in STEM, culture and abstract thinking]

“The desire to fly, is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.” [Wilbur Wright]

"These beings, with soaring imagination, eventually flung themselves and their machines into interplanetary space." [Carolyn Porco ]

I'm member of the Pirate Party (on earth), and ran in elections on earth. I'm a strong defender of an open, liquid democracy.
Democracy is deciding where to go to and how to organize given reality.
Other important topics I defend: Critical thinking and transparency.
The right and freedom to share and copy-paste-adapt (thus a total IP reform) should be completely legal and without barriers
Note: I noticed the cicada project recently. I think Asgardia can greatly benefit from adopting these ideas! http://iamcicada.com/