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Today I logged in and saw over 5000 notifications.

LOL, it's nice to see they are still working on the site.  Keep it up!

Everytime I login I'm surprised by the amout of support I'm getting from my fellow Asgardians.  It makes me more motivated to got to the different Social Media platforms and talk to more people.

Moving ahead with my campaign, I'll be recording a video statement and answering questions.  The response to my request for questions has been great.  I hope the video doesn't get too long (teachers love to talk).  If it does get long, I'll break it into 2 or 3 parts and post it to youtube.  I hope to finish it all this weekend and upload it on Monday.

Thank you again for your support.

I was just catching up on the News, Decrees and Provisions and I came across this nugget of information.

How many of my fellow candidates for parliament know about this provision to Article 33?  Or did I just miss this all together?

What this says is that all Parliamnet candidates must pay a registration fee of 100 Euros. I must honestly say that I didn't know about that.  However I have paid the fee.  I'm wondering how many have not and if those candidates will be removed or disqualified.

2 of Article 33 of the Constitution of Asgardia reads as follows:

The Parliament shall consist of 150 members selected from all-national equal direct elections on the basis of language in proportion to the 12 official languages of Asgardia, taking into account an allocation to other language representatives in accordance with Asgardia’s laws.

Section 9 of the Provision Released on Feb. 1, 2018 Reads as follows:

(Provision On Elections to the First Parliament of Asgardia)

9. A mandatory requirement for a candidate nomination is the registration fee

(donation) to the noncommercial non-governmental organisation Asgardia

(NGO Asgardia), which was created in Vienna as the prototype of the future

space nation prior to its recognition. Te amount of the registration fee is 100

Euros; those who have already made a donation in the same amount, as a

one-time donation or cumulatively, are exempt. In the event that you are not

elected, the money can be returned to you if you so choose, can be transformed

into your registration fee for a candidacy to other bodies of government

administration, or can be applied toward the purchase of Asgardia national

currency – the Solar.

(Company details for NGO «ASGARDIA» are attached.

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I propose a Sovereign Money System to Asgardia. Key advantages of a Sovereign Money System is as follows.

1. No one has to take on more debt to create sovereign money.
2. National Bank can directly manage money supply by prohibiting the creation of new money by commercial banks.
3. The government can use all of the seigniorage as government revenues.
4. Commercial banks are unable to deprive the the nation and the people of their wealth.
5. Sovereign Money System reduces people's poverty compared to present central bank system.

Commercial banks have created excessive demand deposits by making loans. And, their new money creation resulted in depreciation of monetary value and people's poverty. Commercial banks, aiming to maximize their profit, expand the money supply faster than is compatible with economic growth, which causes inflation, hyperinflation and asset bubbles. So, our monetary system would prohibit their creation of new money and operation of funds in customer's demand deposit accounts. Therefore, demand deposits do not carry any interest. Customers who wish to invest their money would have to deposit their funds to the investment accounts. Then the commercial bank manage to these funds and also operate such as making loans. This is a system that does not permit the creation of new money by the commercial banks at all. In the Sovereign Money System, only the Asgardia National Bank would be responsible for creating and managing the money supply. Asgardia National Bank would create the digital legal tender SOLAR in exchange for the interest-free permanent bonds issued by the government. Its decisions on money creation would take into account parameters including economic growth rate, inflation goals and prices of financial assets. An independent Asdardia National Bank would have no motives to create an excess or shortage in money supply.

Money created by the Asgardia National bank would be kept in government account of the national bank and becomes government revenue. And the government would allocate the newly created money to education, insurance, public transportation services, citizen bonus, tax reduction, reduction of public bonds, infrastructure development, investment etc. If a organization monopolize the creation rights and the allocation rights of money, the organization would be motivated to supply excessive money. Therefore, issue rights and allocation rights must be strictly separated. First, the amount of newly created currency would be decided by the Currency Issuance Committee, then the Asgardia National Bank woudl create money by permission of the Currency Issuance Committee. Regarding the allocation of money, the government would prepare a budget proposal and the parliament would deliberate and approve it. In this way digital legal tender SORAL would be distributed to people and businesses as a government expenditure.

As above, i have proposed the outline of the money system which would be the basis of the Asgardea nation, but at the same time as the currency system will be established, we must promote and nurture the industry of Asgardia which would be attractive to ourselves.

銀行家の為ではない、国民の、国民の為の貨幣

私は Asdardia に統治通貨制度を提案する。統治通貨制度のメリットは以下のとおりである。

1. 貨幣を発行する際に誰も政府が負債を負わない
2. 商業銀行による貨幣の創造を禁止することにより国立銀行がマネーサプライを直接的に管理できる
3. 通貨発行益の全てを国の歳入として政府が使用できる
4. 商業銀行が国や国民の富を収奪できなくなる
5. 統治通貨システムは既存の中央銀行システムに比べて国民の貧困を削減する

商業銀行は融資を行うことで要求払預金を過剰に創造してきた。そして彼らの新しい貨幣創造は、貨幣価値の減価と貧困をもたらした。商業銀行は、利益を最大化する為に、現実の経済成長よりも速い勢いでマネーサプライを膨張させ、インフレーション、ハイパーインフレーションや資産バブルを引き起こす。そこで我々のシステムでは商業銀行による要求払預金の創造及び要求払預金口座内の顧客資金を融資などに運用できないものとする。従って要求払預金は利子を生まない。投資を希望する顧客は投資口座に資金を預け入れる。商業銀行はこれらの資金を運用し、融資の実行などの運用を行う。これは民間銀行による貨幣創造を一切許さない制度である。統治通貨制度においては、 Adgardia 国立銀行だけが新規貨幣の発行とマネーサプライの管理に責任をもつものである。Asgardia 国立銀行は、政府が発行する無利子永久国債と引き換えに デジタル法定通貨 SORAL を発行するものとする。Asgardia 国立銀行による貨幣創造の決定は、経済成長率、インフレ目標及び金融資産価格などのパラメータを考慮して行われるものとする。独立した Asgardia 国立銀行はマネーサプライの超過や不足を引き起こす動機を持たないだろう。

Asgardia 国立銀行が発行した貨幣は、Asgardia 国立銀行の政府口座に保管され、政府の歳入となる。そして政府は新規に発行された貨幣を、教育、保険、公共交通サービス、市民ボーナス、減税、公債の減少、インフラ整備、投資、開発などに分配することになる。ある組織が通貨の発行権と分配権を独占すると、その組織は過剰な貨幣発行の動機を得てしまう。従って、通貨の発行権と分配権は厳格に分離されなければならない。先ず新規通貨の発行量は通貨発行委員会が決定し、次に通貨発行委員会の許可により中央銀行が通貨を発行する。また、通貨の分配については政府が予算案を作成し、国会が予算案を審議して承認することとする。こうしてデジタル法定貨幣 SORAL は政府の歳出として個人や企業などに行き渡ることになる。

以上で Asgardea 国家の基礎となる通貨制度の概要を提案したが、通貨制度の構築と同時に、私たちは私たち自身にとって魅力のある産業をプロモートし、育成しなければならない。

Asgardia launched the space vault to keep a part of their gold reserve! And several escort ships are defending the space vault against the space pirates.When this epoch-making story becomes reality, the world will be hard to ignore the presence of Asgardia. The launch of the space vault will contribute not only to the establishment of Asgardia's international presence and national reliability, but also to the stabilization of monetary value and the prevention of poverty.

宇宙金庫室の打ち上げ: Asgardia の国際的プレゼンスと国家の信頼性の確立

Asgardia が金準備の一部を保管する為、宇宙金庫室を打ち上げた！ そして幾つかの護衛艦が宇宙海賊から宇宙金庫を防衛している。この画期的なストーリーが現実となった時、世界は Asgardia の存在を無視することが難しくなるだろう。宇宙金庫の打ち上げは、A sgardia の国際的プレゼンス及び国家の信頼性の確立に貢献するだけでなく、貨幣価値の安定及び貧困の予防にも貢献するだろう。

So the elections will be ending in about one month, get your friends to vote.  Let's make this a good first election!

Have a great week!

So the elections will be ending in about one month, get your friends to vote.  Let's make this a good first election!

Have a great week!

This morning I had an hour long discussion with Nikari Miller on DISCORD.  It was a lot of fun an time flew by.  We were not able to record the discussion but we are planning to have another discussion in the near future.  Ideally we would like some other candidates to join us.  If it is possible we would like it to be on multiple social media platforms.  I'm looking forward to another discussion.  I hope to be able to release a video or recording of the next chat and I'm going to release my own platform video in the next week or two.  So I hope you all keep checking in and tell others about the discussions.  Last I would like to thank Nik for his time today.

This morning I had an hour long discussion with Nikari Miller on DISCORD.  It was a lot of fun an time flew by.  We were not able to record the discussion but we are planning to have another discussion in the near future.  Ideally we would like some other candidates to join us.  If it is possible we would like it to be on multiple social media platforms.  I'm looking forward to another discussion.  I hope to be able to release a video or recording of the next chat and I'm going to release my own platform video in the next week or two.  So I hope you all keep checking in and tell others about the discussions.  Last I would like to thank Nik for his time today.

I'll be answering question on Discord in about 15 minutes.  If you have time please come and take part or follow along.

Tomorrow, Saturday at 11:00 Tokyo time (UTC+9), about 24 hours from the time of this post I will be answering questions and discussing my positions in the parliament election in the DISCORD app in the Elections Office channel.  I think it will be a good chance for those of you who have questions you would like to ask or if you would like to just listen in to the conversation to learn more about me.   We have not set a length for the interview/discussion but I'm thinking about taking questions and opening the discussion up to everyone at the end of the interview.

If you have time I hope that you will join in.  If you don't know about DISCORD it is an app and you can also open a channel in your browser if you don't want to/can not download the app.

I hope to see you there!

2018 has started here where I am.  I hope it will be a great year for Asgardia and her citizens.  I know it will be exciting.  Thank you to all of you who have shown your support for my platform I hope to continue to have your support in the weeks and months ahead.  Thank you!

This was my response from a question in the Discord citizens channel....

Hello everyone!  I hope you are having a good holiday where ever you are.
The first Asgardian government must build the framework for the future government.  To do this I believe that the parliament should not be bogged down with issues that would be better delt with by the Ministries.  The parliament should work to write the procedures for how legislation is proposed and approved.  There are issues that should be considered human rights that can not be left to interpretation of any one minister.  One such issue is the death penalty.  I for one am opposed to government taking the life of citizens.  No matter how terrible the crime is the government cannot take the chance of ending the life of an innocent person.  All Asgardians have the right to the basic necessities to sustain life such as food, shelter, and security of their person and property.   These are the things the parliament will make in to laws in the new government so that future Asgardians cannot be abused or oppressed by any government or corporate body in the future.  I will work to insure these basic rights are set in to law if I'm elected.   If you believe as I do, please vote for me.

This is our future.  We will go to space to live.  Enjoy the view, it's amazing. Happy holidays!

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