My fellow Asgardians,

It is nearly the end of the election, and we can feel the stress in the air as each of us candidates strives to reach as many people as possible!  Personally, I have had a frustrating time reaching anyone, as I cannot access my notifications or the basic chat function of my profile, and the social media options seem to be quite limited.

This is something that elected candidates, that Parliament and the newly formed government of Asgardia, will have to focus on resolving, so that civilians can connect with their elected officials, and so that future elections are much easier to accomplish, as candidates.  We will have a lot of work to do, and we will need more efficient means of communication in order to do so.  That being said, here's what I feel that I bring uniquely to the table, as a candidate of the English district:

1.  My focus on cryptocurrency, and the need of Asgardian civilians to maintain control over its mining, dispersal, and eventual valuation.  I believe that, for the time being, only civilians should be able to mine the currencies (SOLAR and LUNAR), until a certain critical mass has been achieved, at which point, we can open it up to the rest of Earth's population, in order for it to compete with the other available cryptocurrencies, in order to gain actual monetary value, and to thereby also compete with, or be worth anything to, the rest of the global economy.

2.  My focus on exopolitics, which are a branch of geopolitics that deal with... external realities.  This would include issues like airspace, the rights of international entities to access various orbits (ie, low Earth orbit, high Earth orbit, lunar orbit, Martian colonization, etc), but it also focuses on how we deal with the very likely reality of interspecies communication.  When first contact happens, as the first Space Nation of the people of Earth, we will need to be on the front lines, and that means that we need to think of and develop policies, action plans, and contingencies.  I believe, strongly, that we will have a peaceful first contact, but we will be met with the realities of intergalactic politics, and will have to be prepared to "land running."  Having studied this for the past decade, and having had experiences of my own, I believe that I offer something truly unique in this particular area of politics, namely exopolitics.

3.  My specialization in neuroscience comes with accomplishments that I have not published.  Namely, I discovered the locus operati of all mood disorder, and our nation could be the first to step away from the corruption of "Big Pharma," in order to focus on the well being and mental health of our people.  The fact is that mental health is a highly overlooked, taboo area of human psychology and medicine, and our nation could make put mental health of its citizens at the forefront of its collective interests.  We must be a nation that looks at the collective happiness of its people, rather than just the GDP.  A successful nation cares about the best interests of ALL of its people, not just those with the most money.

4.  When it come to the economy, and based on what I have already written above, I believe that we must be a nation that takes the financial wellbeing of all of its citizens seriously as well.  There should be no "haves and have nots" in Greater Asgardia, but rather we should look out for one another.  Those who chose to mine the currency, and those who make decisions about SOLAR and LUNAR, should have certain perks for being directly involved in the development of our economy, but we should not allow some citizens to HOARD our national currency, especially not at the disadvantage of other civilians.  What society at large forgets is that the people who keep the infrastructure working and moving forward, be they janitors or basic laborers, are truly just as important to the success of a nation as its doctors, politicians... and especially its bankers.  As such, policies must be implemented to ensure that those who contribute to the well being of Asgardia are themselves taken care of.  We must work together, with altruism as a guiding principal.

5.  The arts and culture are of fundamental importance to the identity of any nation, and Asgardia is no different.  We must put as much emphasis on the arts (in all their various forms) as we do on the sciences.  Philosophy is as important to understanding cosmology and quantum physics as is the math behind it.  You can not have one without the other, and our educational model must make certain that no area of thought is ignored among its academic community.  When we have opened up a university/ post secondary institution of our own, it must focus on learning for the sake of learning, not just education for the sake of jobs.  We must have a well educated population, and that education must be well rounded.  Not everybody thinks in terms of arts, but it is important to at least understand the nature of the arts, of philosophy, and of history, in order to put the sciences, mathematics, politics, and even theoretical cosmology into perspective.  Our education system can also be a beacon of light for the world.

6.  I try to educate myself in all areas, as everything fits together.  Likewise, Asgardia must recognize that it is a holistic entity.  No one area can go overlooked, as it will come at the expense of the entire whole that is the organic nature of our nation.  Asgardia will be a living, breathing entity, with its citizens working as the cells of a greater body.  As such, candidates must work together, and civilians must participate in the process of growth and development of the Asgardian "Space Kingdom."  We are all in this together, and we cannot allow ourselves to be divided, but must find ways to compromise, and to overcome the problems that are inevitable in the formation (especially in the early years) of any nation, especially ours, being so unique and original, being forged from scratch.  Each and every one of us is an important, vital part of the whole, and Asgardia, whether we are speaking of economics, politics, science and education, etc, is a holistic entity that must be treated as such.  We must work together, in ways never before seen on Earth.

This is just off the top of my head, and I am always available to communicate.  Should you wish to discuss any of my policies, you can reach me at millionthmonkeymusic@gmail.com, and please remember to cast your vote for me, if any of this is to your liking.  I am approachable, and will always look to find the common ground in any dispute.

" Vive Asgardia, Libre! "

Sincerely,
Sean Gratton
B.A. Hons, B.A.
Hamilton, Canada

Just to let everyone know.  I do not prolifically post on social media.  Personally I believe that commenting for the sake of having a comment is not very constructive.  If I do not have anything constructive to add to the discussion I do not post.  When I do I take part in the conversation.  I hope you understand.

Just as a bit of background I have been a member of Asgardia from when it was first announced.  I then volunteered at an event in Montreal where I had the pleasure of meeting some of the Officials such as Ms Lena De Winne and Dr Jakhu.  I was very honored when they reached out to me and asked me to be on the independent voting commission to verify the votes on the Constitution.   Some of you may have seen some of my camera work on the Facebook live stream of that event.... it was the shaky part.  :)

I decided to start running at this time because I have been watching the discussions and seeing many people drop out and the conversations becoming less and less positive.  As someone who believes strongly in what Asgardia is trying to achieve I took a moment to consider hard the responsibility I would be stepping up for.  After much conversation with my family I decided to put put my name in to run to become a member of Parliament.

Asgardia has a long and hard road ahead of it. I believe that if we all roll up our sleeves and work together as a team to put the effort in we can build the Asgardia that the world needs.  We need to be realistic and positive, making progress towards our Asgardia goals.

I hope you will vote for me and we will continue on this journey together.

My fellow Asgardians,

It's very frustrating trying to be a candidate of this primary parliamentary election, because the existing infrastructure is very poor, and it seems like most members of Asgardia are not, themselves, very active.  So, how do I reach out to you and gain your vote?

I have so much to offer this fledgling nation, between politics and policies, culture and technological breakthroughs.  We stand to be a great nation, if we work together, and we can be recognized as REAL and SOVEREIGN by the world, in our unity and our interactions.

We must take control of our own financial situation, an issue that I continue to repeat, with regards to the cryptocurrency named SOLAR.

We must make campaigning something that is easier to accomplish, to be able to interact with our various demographics, and to make the most of our fledgling democracy.  There is much work to do, but we can accomplish it all, if we work together, in unity.

We must also make sure that this election is more than just a popularity race, for those who registered earlier and managed to get votes, while others with more to offer are going unnoticed, if only because we're not as active on social media.  There are candidates who can offer truly advanced perspectives on geopolitics, exopolitics, economics, and all the various topics that are required in the accomplishment of this exercise in nation building.

It is up to us to bring more people in to the Asgardia community, people who think this is more than just a cool website, who have become citizens out of more than just curiosity...  We need people who understand that this is a novel attempt at creating a new nation, the world's first, official, space (ie, non–terrestrial) nation, who take this process seriously, and want to bring their own efforts and skills to the process.

Let me rephrase that:  THIS ELECTION NEEDS TO BE ABOUT MORE THAN JUST POPULARITY!  It needs to be about competence, about skills, about diverse, outside–of–the–box thinking, and it should ultimately be the responsibility of the administration of Asgardia to make it possible for those of us with something legitimate to offer to reach our demographics, with more ease.

Not only has there been a disadvantage with regard to time in this election, but actually reaching the people of Asgardia has not been an easy task.  I'm not even certain whether my blog posts are being read, though my votes have currently gone from 4 up to 19, not that I seem to have gained any ground with regards to my ranking.  Even just sneaking into one of the last seats would serve my purposes just fine, because I would be able to oversee the subsequent evolution of the policies that will, themselves, determine the future and the fate of Asgardia.

So... in brief... there has to be a better way than this to campaign.  There doesn't currently seem to be any information, or any real policies in place for campaigning, aside from the VERY PASSIVE 'button' on our campaign pages, to send random messages to people... actually, I don't even know what it does!  It just says "Push here to campaign."  That's it!  We can do better than that, and, if I am elected to Parliament, I will make sure that future elections run much more smoothly, and make much more sense to those involved.

This is a real election, for a real, sovereign, unique nation, and, as such, it needs to be taken seriously, by EVERYBODY involved, be it civilians, candidates, or the existing administration.  Frankly, this website needs to be updated substantially, since this is fundamentally the very foundation of our national identity.  We don't have land, we have cyber–space, and we need this site to be retrofitted, the bugs resolved, and the ability to interact with each other, to change the course of our early history and to actually be involved in the success of Asgardia.

Anyway, we can do better than this, Asgardia, and we will do better than this.  Just keep on bringing new minds, and let's make this nation grow in a positive direction, together.

" Vive Asgardia, Libre! "

Sincerely,
Sean Gratton
B.A. Hons. Psychology and Neuroscience
B.A. Philosophy and Religious Studies
C.C.H.P.

Candidate Nissim 1 makes an interesting argument against fishing for votes.

While canvassing is a necessary democratic method - we need to campaign, to start conversations and to ask people to vote for us. But there's a degree to which if you are just begging for votes, you are being unethical.

The main ones are: Vote for me and I'll vote for you, or just, vote for me - but I have no plan.

The first one is problematic because it makes this election a zero-sum game. Either "I'll vote for you if you vote for me" or "I won't vote for you" means the only votes you get and exchanged for no benefit.

Let's be clear here: the only ethical way to vote, is to vote for an inspiring candidate.

So here's the deal... If you read through my profile and my writings and you aren't inspired - don't vote for me! And if you like me and find me inspiring, or if you believe I can do a duty - vote for me!

Meanwhile, I make the same promise. I will vote for you if you inspire me to. But if you don't, I will not give you a vote for a vote.

We don't need that kind of political gaming.

We need governors, not gamers.

Overview
This document serves as an overview of public agreement to join an open group of citizens acting as a thinktank in "operation: Treasury." It will document my intentions, agreements and plans as a matter of live, public record. Regard the blog of Ross Cheeseright for his call for membership of such a think-tank.

Introduction

After viewing Ross's post in the Facebook group Asgardia General (Official), I contacted him to discuss the plans revolving around the treasury. I asked to join and volunteered to build a slack channel and other social media communication channels for the group.

Social Media
I have already built the slack channel, it is only awaiting population. I have downladed Discord for future voice-based discourses. I plan to launch a Trello profile and Facebook group.

Financing Ideation
Prior to the meetings and first discussions, I plan to propose a set of ideas which could be researched towards more concrete and actionable financing goals. A rough draft of this proposal will follow.

Asgardian Financial Ideation (v.01)

Stage One - Launch initiative in March.

Small-Purchase Funding and Crowdfunding

• Attract Asgardian artists and illustrators to design small graphical representations of Asgardia.
• Sell these in a variety of online venues for print-on-demand merchandise.
• Especially: sell wearable products to build esprit de corps.
• Save gains.
  
  

Stage Two - Launch end of March/Beginning of April

• Crowdfund for single project from list:
  • Sci-Fi Sci-Fi Anthology comprised of short stories about Asgardia’s future.
  • Poetry anthology comprised of Asgardian poets celebrating the themes and dreams of Asgardia.
  • Historical Documentary tracking and describing the founding of Asgardia.

Stage Three-Five

• Repeat Stage Two until all three projects are funded. Fund and complete one, then another, then another.
• Save Money From Sales

Aim for completion by summer’s end.

Stage Six

Use gains from projects to fund assembly of an engineering team. The engineering team will build - in conjunction with the National Bank, the Treasury and the Financial Ministry  - a blockchain foundation for the SOLAR. Launching an ICO will provide a central funding for the first National Vault. The Nation will control the mining of SOLAR until it possesses an acceptable set of master nodes. SOLAR will be in part issued as payment for services, and partially as a tradeable product.

Stage Seven

Asgardia should then turn its attention to tasking the Engineers with working with the Treasury and the Ministry of Youth and Education to construct the online educational platform of Asgardia.

Stage Eight

Asgardia should sell usage rights to non-Asgardians either as an upfront service to the people of the world, or as an option for nations themselves to pay for via international agreements.

Stage Nine

Asgardia should use its educational system to vet and identify the educational promise of its citizenry. When citizens already possess degree-worthy education, the State should perform inter-work missions, getting jobs for its best citizens in fields of science and space engineering.

Stage Ten

The State will create a grant-giving block-chain system meant as a decentralized means of regulating the funding of new private enterprises. Representatives of the Treasury and the political leadership seek global investment in the Asgardian blockchain network to fund discreet private business grants. The grant system will select for ideal businesses proposed to work in businesses of interest to Asgardia such as - but not limited to - private space business.

Stage Eleven

Semi-Voluntary Taxation programs should begin to be initiated. The richest Asgardians should be asked to pay a small share of taxes. Meanwhile, an opt-in voluntary tax service is launched as a means for citizens to pay anything that they can to the state. A payment must be made, but to which public institution and by which denomination will be up to the user up to and including a fraction of a dollar.

Stage Twelve

Asgardia expands its online social services, assists in the rise of Asgardian business, builds public businesses. Asgardians are working and participating in global affairs.

Conclusion
I've got some work ahead of me. I have to complete the above document and create a more clear theory of work for achieving all the major goals. I plan to refer to Agile/Scrum and OKRs methods of team organization for chunking larger abstract problems into numerous small tasks carried out by members of teams. I also plan to engage in dialectics with the Think Tank in order to criticize the faults of the proposals, to add in other excellent ideas, and to adjust and redesign promising but incomplete ideas.

Overview
This document serves to outline two concepts. One is a suggestion for a national educational service which tracks and assists the progress of citizen self-education. This includes a model for attracting and financing educators. The social service demonstrates a kind of model which could be replicated for any service Asgardia has the power to provide through the internet. But this model for social service itself requires initial funding to lift off the ground. Fortunately, a work-backed blockchain network might solve this problem of funding. This three-stage plan is proposed to lead to a robust and unique SOLAR currency traded internationally and earned by social service providers.

Decentralized Education on the Blockchain

Asgardia should make active use of blockchain technology and crowdfunding in order to build a fledgling educational matrix for citizens.

The internet is filled with incredible educational content. But what is generally lacking is a structure around that which guides students forward and assists them with their self-directed education. For example, a person can easily sample the enormous scientific lecture listing produced by MIT called their “open courseware”. Or if one searches carefully, there are over 20 lectures from many universities about philosophy. Further education is distributed through many sources - The Great Courses, Coursera, EduX, Khan Academy and many others.

What Asgardia should do is first create a platform which helps citizens navigate the complex set of what’s available. Secondly, this platform should track progress and associate educational process with a citizen’s profile. Finally, Asgardia should do this by constructing smart contract profiles for citizens in a blockchain. Proofs of viewing become the foundation for an appearance of expertise.

In order to expand the usefulness of the service, Asgardia should also provide profiles and a marketplace to Asgardian educators. These educators should be rewarded a cryptocurrency denomination for doing some essential work. These may include:

- Making new educational content native to the Asgardian educational platform.
- Creating formal tests for philosophy and science.
- Working en-masse to create a suite of Asgardian textbooks by way of massively decentralized work structures.

- Ranking and reviewing the content produced by Asgardian educators honestly and critically.

But I’m getting ahead of our abilities. How do we have national services without the funding to pay for national services? Fortunately I have an idea for that: we must build a Work-Backed Blockchain (WBB) Network.

Work-Backed Blockchain Network
Asgardia needs to frame its social services under a network of Blockchains with secondary cryptocurrencies. These will form the basis for creating the value of the SOLAR. We do this first by drafting whitepaper proposals for the first suite of social services, focusing on services which can be transmitted over the internet such as the aforementioned educational service. Then we launch ICOs for the services. The revenue from the ICO becomes the initial vault of value for the SOLAR. Future tokens rewarded for work by any service’s blockchain is traded to the government in exchange for SOLAR. The SOLAR’s ongoing value is determined by the volume of high-value transactions to the government. Workers whose reputations produce higher quantities of secondary tokens provide greater value to the SOLAR.

In this model, each service has its own cryptocurrency, its own blockchain and its own smart contract reputation service tracking the fitness of providers and services which rewards useful participation. These might come in the form of Colony (colony.io) teams or Bitnation (tse.bitnation.co) holons or through some other technology at first, but eventually will be proprietary Asgardian blockchain software structures. The real value will be found once those services are built.

Stage One - Funding and the Catch 22 Paradox

But how do we even fund the initial steps of this project? Aren’t we running into a catch 22 here? We are losing funding and we need a strategy to get our own funding.

We need to create the plan for each service in a separate whitepaper. Then for each service we must launch an ICO - an initial coin offering. The very first ICO must be for the SOLAR itself. We attract investors to purchase initial tokens at a fixed rate. We use the funds gained by the ICOs and invest into the treasury of the SOLAR. By having a primary currency backed by a fixed store of value, we can create a first social service: the governments Blockchain Engineering Service as a member of the Ministry of Science.

Stage Two - Building the Thing

This engineering wing will construct the economic model first by creating an interface for Asgardia with the Colony and Bitnation services to fund their own work. Colony will provide the initial workforce platform which allows our engineers to do the work of building the other social services, such as the educational service mentioned above. The tokens these Engineers receive will be the first proof-of-works traded for the Asgardian primary currency.

Workers will exchange their proof-of-work tokens to the state for equal parts SOLAR, and those proof-of-work tokens will be stored in a treasury vault as the financial backing of the SOLAR. This token will be produced such that most of the tokens are sold internationally, or loaned by the government, or traded for proof of work.

Stage Three - The Birth of an Internationally Traded National Currency

Hopefully by then, there has been enough trading of Asgardian currencies to provide objective value to workers. The SOLAR will be appraised by the market due to having a foundational basket of other kinds of value, both proof-of-work and traditional investment. This will attract Asgardian educators and other potential social workers to our platforms. Providing service will produce proof-of-work tokens, and they will be traded to the government to increase the backing of the Asgardian primary currency. Over time the SOLAR will grow to become a robust and powerful currency - if we use the momentum of our social services to inspire the birth of Asgardian space, science, produce and art industries which trade in SOLAR.

At its core, however, the world’s nations will also see the value in the rising SOLAR. This will be primarily because of relieving some of their social burdens by providing decentralized online services for people. As our value to the nations of the world grows, so too will their interest in us. And that will only spiral around towards greater investments in our One Nation and One People.

Conclusion

I hope this has been a convincing idea for a model of future Asgardian public service and funding. This is obviously an incomplete idea and can be improved greatly. Version of this kind of reasoning could be applied to creating an Asgardian crowdfunding alternative to taxation. People could regularly donate as a voluntary tax funds to any number of Asgardian social services, constantly providing additional short-term value to the currencies traded from service to employee, and from employee to nation, and finally from nation to service providers. These ideas can be expanded in any direction - but not without the committed work of an Asgardian government and people!

Hello Asgardia!

I am a candidate in this inaugural parliamentary election , but haven't been interactive via social media. I'm hoping to change that, for the sake of this election alone, but I've stepped back from Facebook in my life recently, on account of its destructive side on real life and soulful purpose, on my own direction. I'm sure you can relate or at least understand; however, I am also very much involved, especially intellectually, in the pursuit of the betterment of humanity, and am very interested in the concepts of exopolitics and of our existence with other space faring nations. Many exist, but they are ultimately concerned about interacting with us, for one reason or another.

As such, I am reaching out to you, socially, via this medium, to say hello...

I am a thinker and a leader, with my head often occupied by thoughts on cosmology, quantum physics, fuzzy logic, entanglement and hundredth monkey phenomenon, consciousness, universalism, fractals and holism, altruism, and a plethora of other scholarly fields, including anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the arts. I am a jack of all intellectual trades, but also an existentialist... one who suffers in his pursuit of greater truths and higher realities. As such, I wood love to apply my mind, and to be actively involved in the development of policies for the governance of this greater, independent, free, and sovereign (potential) space nation, known as Asgardia .

The inherent and imminent principals of Asgardia are of immense relevance and importance to the survival of our species, in pursuit of a future that is far more peaceful and of mutual benefit for all beings, all peoples, universally .

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If you are interested in what I have had to say, so far, then please cast a vote for me , and I will continue to write my thoughts on all of the topics that will help to build our fledgling, radically–different nation, and I look forward to taking part in its inception.

Also, I currently have two petitions up for immediate referendum ( please vote ):


The first petition is on the matter of the need for a cut-off date, in running for office by becoming a candidate for the parliament, following which point all candidates will have the same amount of time to campaign, instead of how it is currently designed, where some candidates have had months more time than others, say... those who just found out about this election later, or became interested citizens of Asgardia and only just realized that they even could run for a position in the Asgardian Parliament.

The second petition is to help ensure that the Asgardian cryptocurrency, SOLAR, can only be mined by credible, able citizens of Asgardia, and that the currency will be held exclusively by Asgardian citizens, until a future date, to be determined, at which point all civilians (perhaps by some predetermined measure) will receive a certain portion of the currency, and at which point it will go to market, with the other cryptocurrencies and thereby generating its value), but its main control should be held by Asgardia, in the form of its civilian body, and not just hoarded by the few.  It can be controlled in such a way as to ensure its acquiring roughly stable value, akin to the current socio– economic systems of the world, and it will thereby evolve, just like anything else.

I move that we initiate the above two policies, as soon as is realistically possible, so that our democratic system can be a shining beacon of light, for an otherwise dark and gloomy world, and our economy can serve to benefit all active citizens, to the greatest extent. A vote for me is a vote for forward-moving, outside-of-the-box thinking, with an acceptance that we are not alone in the universe, and that we can be a part of something much bigger, as soon as we, collectively, agree that it's worth of our accomplishment. One species, united by peace and the altruistic pursuit of betterment.  It is time for humanity to overcome its disappointing history, to strive for the betterment of all, and for our pending exopolitical inclusion .

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Disclosure and (an undeniably, globally acknowledged) First Contact are also of the utmost importance, to know with certainty that we are not alone in this universe (the latter concept being, IMHO, quite ridiculous and statistically improbable). Frankly, I believe that there may even be intelligent life existing within this very solar system.

People are, quite simply, no longer mentally bound to state–sanctioned, fear–based propaganda about extraterrestrials or "aliens," but are now both curious, and frankly accepting of the high likelihood that First Contact is right around the corner. More and more people are admitting that they believe there has been a long–standing effort to cover up the fact that peoples from other planets, from other civilizations, from other regions of the galaxy/ universe have even been interacting with humanity for tens of thousands of years, if not considerably longer. People no longer seem to think of First Contact in terms of abductions, or as the Hollywood–esque "aliens coming to steal all of our precious resources" (sarcasm intended). Humanity seems to be more rational, more open–minded, viewing this as an integral part of our collective evolution.

1. How Would We React to Finding Aliens?
2. Humans will react well to news of alien life, study reveals.

At the same time, the evidence is piling up that we are not alone, and that we never really have been.  It is an exciting time to be alive (the unfortunate, mundane reality of corporate bills, consumerism, and financial extortion aside), as we may be on the verge of finding our place in the local, galactic... neighbourhood.  We stand at the very precipice of potentially great change, where our energy and environmental problems may finally have a hope of being solved, concurrently with novel propulsion systems, and the potential access to a plethora of shared information from our pending allies.

It is thusly that candidates should have some understanding of exopolitics , and be aware of the ongoing, legitimate efforts at disclosure, by some of the highest ranking individuals in the Earth's governmental and military–industrial institutions.

"Vive Asgardia, Libre!"

Sincerely,
Sean Gratton

B.A. Hons Psychology
B.A. Philosophy
C.C.H.P.

I have had troubles reaching you, my potential voters, for whatever reason, but I have posted two referendum petitions today for the consideration of all Asgardian citizens.

As such, I hope to address the issues of time in elections, and the Asgardian cryptocurrency, SOLAR, both of which I have written blog posts about.


To recapitulate and briefly mention the topics of these petitions:

1.  The major issue that I see with our electoral process is TIME.  Specifically, candidates who applied first have had more time to collect votes.  As much as this may seem like a motivator to get people to submit their applications quickly, it is actually an unfair, default condition.  I, myself, did not even consider running for Parliament until it had already been open for a month, and then I suffered delays due to upload issues and a general computer failure.  As such, I have lost much critical time (two months worth), and my "competition" has benefited.

Frankly, this election seems to be less about ability, and more about a) how quickly a candidate signed up, and b) their ability to be seen via social media.  That makes it a popularity contest, rather than a fair and unbiased election.  This is something that we, as citizens, will have to address for future elections, but which will ultimately determine the outcome of our first parliamentary election, which may shape the course of Asgardia itself.  So, it is a crucial issue.

2.  The Asgardian cryptocurrency, aptly named SOLAR , should be reserved for Asgardian citizens.  It is inevitable that it will have to be made available on the open market, in order for its value to increase (and for it to be worth anything), but, in the interim, citizens of Asgardia should be the only ones able to mine and hold SOLAR currency, until we can agree on exactly how to handle our financial affairs.  Simple allowing anyone to mine and own SOLAR at this nexus in time creates a dismal future circumstance, one where citizens will be forced to purchase SOLAR at a premium from individuals and institutions who have, themselves, mined our currency.

This serves, in effect, to render our currency open to the corruption and whims of the open market, right from the start, thereby creating inequity, where Asgardia must serve as a prime example of a free and sovereign nation.  We must make all possible efforts to prevent the status quo from winding its way into our society, choking out the light like a nonnative weed, lacking control measures, and disrupting the natural order/ equilibrium of the system (I'm an accredited herbalist, so I truly mean this)... and conventional/ traditional financial agents/ institutions are themselves very much like weeds, or viruses.  They choke out the competition and exist solely to serve themselves.  We cannot allow this to happen to Asgardia.  We must stand guard and be prepared to cut out the vines before they choke us, financially.


Thus, there are two critical issues that must be addressed by the current governmental body, namely the default disadvantage of time in the election process, and the real and existing threat of financial organizations taking control of our national currency, before we do.

Thank you for your respective consideration of the matter, and please don't forget to vote.  I will be sharing this post when my petitions are finally made active.

Sincerely,
Sean Gratton
aka, onemillionthmonkey
District #1, English

" Viva Asgardia, Libre! "
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I am a 34 year old marketing professional, also with over 17 years in diplomacy working with various civil society arms of the United Nations. I bring quite a wealth of experience in both Marketing, and foreign Policy, as well as in Negotiations and Policy writing.

I have a keen interest in working with the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs, it is my belief that my hybrid experience  in International Relations and Marketing and Public Relations will be ideal for ensuring our success in gaining the correct connections between Earth Nations and International Bodies that will be needed for our nation's success.

My promise; either as an elected official, or government employee working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is to ensure that our nation has its rightful place among the over 200 nations of Earth, and that we lead by example with our new home. We must form the correct global partnerships that can ensure we remain sustainable, and viable so that we can expand quickly, correctly and fairly to all.

Recently I addressed the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations on the importance of Youth Development for Sustainability with a focus on the African Nations, (see here: http://imsr.me/ARDNUNYouthSpeech )  it was a resounding success and I was able to ensure that young people have a roll in decision making when it comes to the future of the earth and the UN sustainable development goals,. I believe these connections and  my  combination of skills will be a great asset to Asgardia as we aim to getting to the stars!  For more about me you can visit my website www.imsroyer.com and my linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/imsroyer/

Seeming as that I have had so many problems with this website, I thought I would share my email to the support team with the rest of you, as a blog post, especially since many of us are dealing with the same issues:

Dear Support Team,

Here are the several issues that have had and are having a serious effect on my campaign as a candidate.  I hope that these issues can be resolved, if only for the next elections, since this election is already so poorly managed that I have very little hope of a positive outcome (for myself, not for other "first past the post" candidates).

1.  I lost 2 weeks as a candidate trying to upload my documents to your server.  Due to one issue or another, my files were all "too large," or the server went down, and yet, other people have been collecting votes for months now, with apparently no problems whatsoever.  How is that fair?

2.  Notifications do not show up, so I don't know what's going on in my riding.  Another candidate mentioned this back in December, and the problem still exists.  The only solution was to email the support team...

3.  I submitted a blog post on cryptocurrencies and SOLAR, which took an hour to write, as it was detailed and well written, and it simply vanished, due to some server error on your end.  Gone.  Vanished.  Kaput.  Perhaps it's my fault for forgetting that this website is poorly coded, and not creating a back-up copy in Notepad.  My bad.

4.  I have tried to submit two petitions that are relevant to my campaign (namely, the need for Asgardian citizens to have control over the SOLAR cryptocurrency, and also the issue of lost time trying to register as a candidate), since it seems that I cannot reach any voters, and the whole process of being a candidate is incredibly irritating, since some people seem to have NO PROBLEMS, and they're getting the votes, while here I am, with an actual platform, actual accreditation, and I can't get votes, because nobody seems to know that I exist.

5.  The responses I've received for the failed petitions has been vague, including nonsense like "candidate does not have photo," which is wrong, "candidate name not listed," which is wrong, and some other random garbage which makes me question who the people are that are in charge of determining what passes for a petition.  "There is no addressee."  What does that even mean!?  I have submitted ALL of the information requested of me, why is this process so broken?

I have lost SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY trying to be a legitimate candidate, offering a plethora of skills and talents, and INTEREST in this project, and I cannot seem to get ahead, one way or another.  I'm really getting frustrated, and yet, it is not the fault of the PEOPLE, whom I seek to represent.

Sincerely,
Sean Gratton
Hamilton, Canada

#CosmicVisionNews #CVN #ROOOFCONFLICT – January 19, 2018 – Broadcast And Show Transcript With Links : http://www.cosmicvisionnews.com/item/305

[I already wrote a similar blog entry yesterday, but an unfortunate computer error resulted in its vanishing into thin air, and I had not saved a copy to notepad, which I normally do...]

Part of my platform includes the need for Asgardian citizens to mine our own cryptocurrency, known as SOLAR.  Specifically, I believe that ONLY Asgardian citizens should be able to mine the currency, whomsoever should feel inclined to do so.

This post will be shorter than the one that I wrote yesterday, if only because I decided to submit a petition for a referendum on the matter, and it covers a substantial amount of information.

For anybody paying any attention whatsoever, it is apparent that we are experiencing a new gold rush, albeit a virtual gold rush, with regards to the mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies, and the sudden, radical increase in value of currencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP), Etherium (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (DGC), to name but a relative few.

The major issue that I have is this:  Allowing non–citizens to mine for SOLAR will inevitably result in said individuals selling our currency back to us at a premium.  This is the unfortunate reality of cryptocurrencies and economics, and one that we must deal with before it becomes a problem... before citizens are unable to afford their own currency.

It is my position, then, that a mining software must be created, and made available exclusively to citizens of Asgardia.  Once a certain amount of SOLAR has been mined, only then should it be made public, the latter being the only way for our currency to become worth anything.  It really is fundamentally inevitable that SOLAR will become public, because it is in its demand and in its exchange that it will develop value––value being the whole point of currency in the first place.

Given that a currency based on a dog meme has become worth what it currently is (and it has exceeded all initial expectations, my having paid attention to it since its inception), it is likely that SOLAR will, likewise, grow in value, and will be accepted by the world markets.

I also believe that those citizens who mine SOLAR should be given some incentive to share in the wealth, since the hoarding of liquid assets is ultimately why the world is currently facing such dire financial straits.  Currently, according to an OXFAM report, basically half of the world's population is being held (aka, hoarded) and controlled by less than 100 people, and this is simply NOT acceptable for any advanced, pro–social civilization/ nation.  Thus, it is in the best interest of ASGARDIA: THE SPACE KINGDOM to find a way to spread the wealth, to ensure that its citizens are well taken care of, and that nobody is subject to the conditions of poverty.

That all being said, I will reiterate my objective:  The ability to mine SOLAR, the cryptocurrency of Asgardia, must be made available to the citizens of Asgardia; said currency must be controlled by the people of Asgardia; and, all future decisions (including how and when to make SOLAR available to the general public) must be determined by the will of the people, by popular vote.  It is only in doing so that the wealth and success of Asgardians citizens can be assured.

Economics are an unfortunate reality of contemporary human civilization, but it is a reality nonetheless, and we must therefore make it a major point of focus in moving forward.  In order for Asgardia to be accepted as a sovereign nation, we, the citizens, must have guaranteed access to our currency, and this currency must be maintained and controlled by the people.  Should we allow SOLAR to be mined and controlled by individuals with ulterior motives, it is certain that our people will be the ones to bare the consequences.

" Vive Asgardia, Libre! "

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PLEASE CONSIDER VOTING FOR MY PLATFORM AND SUPPORTING ME AS A CANDIDATE TO REPRESENT ASGARDIA.

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#CosmicVisionNews #CVN – January 5, 2018 – Broadcast And Show Transcript With Links : http://www.cosmicvisionnews.com/item/303