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!!"

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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?

For my part, I'm not one of the most cultured people, I haven't done  any great studies, I'm not a scientist, not even a politician or an  important person...
I'm just a worried young mother for the future we  bequeath to our children, the effects of our actions on the "health" of  our Earth.

We all have a role to play. All in our way, with our means, we can all contribute to Asgardia

I've  faith in Asgardia and I'm convinced that together we can build a better  future for humanity, that Asgardia is the beginning of a more humble,  more peaceful, more humane future ...
A better future for our children

No  religion, political party or personal wealth that governs the nation,  just science, logic, sharing, unity, humanity, equality for all ...

That's what i think about When I think of Asgardia

I  think of honor, freedom, peace, knowledge, equity, compassion, empathy,  education for all, evolution, ecology, respect, tolerance, transcending  cleavages, learning from past, all these topics as different, as  important in a nation such as Asgardia

Maybe it's a dream, maybe it's can be reality

With a concept as new and radical as our Asgardia, a multitude of futures are possible.

We   can hope to build something that has never existed before: a peaceful   state that holds tolerance and logic as its most central principles.

We must now protect our nation and ensure that it remains true to its destiny.

Throughout human history, nations have been prey to conflict.

Asgardia is above the politics and small differences that afflict every earthly nation.
With the light of science and will, we can achieve what has never been done before.
We must now endeavor to refuse to accept that the problems of the past prevail in our future.

We  strive to forge a society and show what the light of logic and the path  of passion can accomplish when each person is considered as the  treasure they are.
In Asgardia, each individual, is an immeasurable resource of unlimited value and potential.
We have a more diverse population than any other nation in the world.
Language, race and land borders do not mean anything to the Asgardians, because we have already transcended these bonds.

By knowing where we come from, we can better know where we are going.

I'm certainly not one of the people who can best apply all of these,
but  I appeal to the people who have the skills and the means to act for our  future, make that Asgardia manage to create a better future for our  children

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 ]

How do we see the future of our nation evolve?

I joined this nation in the hopes of finding people of equal mind. People who think that earth is not our final destination as humans. As earth is finite, we need to find our home amoung the stars. Asgardia is my hope for the future of humans who think. I would like to see a nation build on reason, where the principles of scientific progress and research are our first priority. Because only by progressing can we find our homes amoung the Stars. So i aspire to help anyway i can. I will listen to people who are smarter then me and help where i can.