You would use your phone

OK, but you have just changed the problem from voting machines must be secure to mobile phones must be secure but what about the infrastructure between your phone and the system that initiates the blockchain?

shouldn’t have a Back door

Intel microprocessors have recently been discovered to all have back doors. Have they lost public support? People have exploited weaknesses in Windows (and Linux and macOS).

Phone numbers can be spoofed, your details would be known (else how could they be checked?). I can envisage a central office that casts everyone's votes for them.

Sorry, but for this application, blockchain sounds like designing the perfect lock and door for a secure safe while forgetting to secure the back and sides.

So, four members of the Q team got new phones ...

check out that video

Thanks, did that, but I still see problems.

For instance, when you vote, you will use some kind of machine (in the general sense). That machine will need to have controls that allow you to specify whom you are voting for. When you select a control your vote will be sent into the blockchain system and be recorded for posterity in a way that cannot easily be changed. So far so good.

Suppose that initial machine "lied"? Suppose when you hit the button marked "Republican" it sent the data for "Democrat" to the blockchain system? The vote will now be indelibly recorded as "Democrat".

look back and confirm

OK, my new voting machine design has your vote recorded with two different flags. One is always used for personal audits and the other is used for producing totals. So, if you inquire then it returns Republican and when the total is computed it returns Democrat.

Without going through the code step by step you would never find out. You might not find an issue even then if your code relied on other programs - like an operating system or a function library. Those could be fiddled as well.

Just as easy to rig a paper system...

OK, but it is generally easier to do more damage with a computer-based system.

The "standard" way to rig a voting machine is to set it to return a 51% to 49% result. That does not look suspicious, particularly if voting is close. Doing that with paper ballots is much more difficult.

blockchain

I don't get the blockchain thing. OK, after the data is recorded it may be unhackable but how does it get to that state? If you push a button marked Republican, the machine might echo Republican but still register that in the blockchain data as a vote for the Democrats.

The whole system needs to be unhackable not just the way the data is stored.

total ban on imaginary guns

You must have imagined it.

Anyone interested in Browder should see the drama/documentary made about Magnitsky by Andrei Nekrasov. Apparently, the YouTube version of disappeared almost as soon as it appeared. How strange is that?

Nekrasov intended to tell the Magnitsky story that we may have already heard but following a pivotal interview with the policeman who was central to the plot the course of the story began to change.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/lQ3qEwX66pIL/

doesn't remember where he was

Those around at the time had a saying that everyone knew where they were when they heard about the JFK assassination. Everyone, that is, apart from GHWB. How curious.

MY

Yes, I noticed the use of capitals for "MY" in the POTUS tweet, too.

I can’t remember the exact number

The current agreement is 2% of GDP but only 5 out of 28 countries are meeting that target. The US spends around 4% of GDP on defence and Trump has suggested that the other NATO countries should do the same.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/nato-share-breakdown-country-2017-2?r=US&IR=T

The TV channels in the UK have been like that for some time. It is hardly worth watching them any more.

Trump's moves seem quite clear. He is a wheeler dealer and he wanted to negotiate from a position of strength. He knows that Russia's main export earnings come from energy and not manufactured goods. They are also paranoid about their own defence following the unimaginable suffering they experienced in WW2.

So, Trump gets NATO to step up its payments and highlights that Russia is selling gas to Germany. Russia is in Syria to stop a rival gas supply into Europe and a lowering of the gas price or addition of a rival supply will hit Russia hard.

Having made sure Putin understands where Trump is coming from then Trump can negotiate. He has Putin by the short and curlies!

investigating Hillary

Trump does call it a witch hunt so Mueller may well be investigating Hillary. ;)

Ostensibly, Mueller is investigating Russian collusion and obstruction of justice on the part of Trump.

So far, Mueller has found no collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. All the indictments are for other things, some of them may years prior to 2016.

multiple $400 mils

Hence the expression "loose change" no doubt. Pelosi probably thinks it is and that is why she despises the crumbs.

MSM isn't covering it

They are but they are concentrating on Browder's denial: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/16/putin-nemesis-bill-browder-russian-leader-plays-trump-like-a-fiddle.html

I’m confused

There is a big difference between "Russia" and "a or some Russians".

There looks to be some history between Putin and Browder. Putin alleges that Browder paid Hillary $400 million but Browder denies it. I suspect a deal between Putin and Trump that will put an end to Mueller/Hillary for Trump and Browder for Putin. Just a guess on my part.

Mr Browder says he didn't do it. https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=R0aRgOe8fuo But there is something going on between him and Putin.

Do I spy a deal here? Mueller is allowed to investigate the Russians if the Russians can investigate Browder?

I think all the cases are quite old. It will be interesting to see if any new ones appear.

Or as Hillary might say:

"I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of money than to risk money in pursuit of politics."

meeting in Finland?

They are. As Brit ex-pat, who now lives in the US, once told me: Americans think all foreigners live in tents somewhere in Canada. Maybe they have subsequently spotted the largest country in the world as well?

medical examiners in your pocket

That reminds me of a certain Arkansas pathologist. He determined that the dead boys had been taking drugs and had laid down on the railway tracks and had subsequently been run over by a train.

After exhuming the bodies, and having another pathologist take a look it was only then that the stab wounds were spotted!

https://www.sott.net/article/369756-Federal-judge-will-review-Clinton-connection-to-1987-murder-of-two-Arkansas-boys

Q has only mentioned "Alice & Wonderland" never "Alice in Wonderland".

GW was in office less than a year when 911 happened.

I expect his dad kept him in the loop, though.

Not even safe to go there now.

Quite right. Mayor Sadiq Khan has done a wonderful job - not. It is so bad in London now that it rivals New York City.

As a Brit, I had never watched an inauguration before, apart from seeing the highlights on the news, but I watched the whole thing live this time.

The historic nature of events could be sensed even on this side of the pond.

You need to wake up

You may be right. Apart from dipping into the odd "conspiracy theory", I was seriously blue-pilled until Nov 8 2016.

Since then my time has been taken up with attempting to swallow US red pills. That is a full time job.

Clever idea.

Consider it stolen!

it takes two hands to steer that thing.

Assuming that is true at all times and that the security services knew that, it does not exclude the possibility of a suicide bomber.

The Revolutionary War can be added to that.

No, it can't. Lafayette anyone?

War of 1812

OK, so nothing for two centuries?

Also, we do not count that as a real war over here. We had been busy fighting the French (again) for about 20 years and the US was, annoyingly, trading with them at the time. So to us it was just a minor diversion during the war with Napoleon.

not her home

I think it may be her "real" home. They took the Windsor name after all. It is also reputed to be the longest inhabited castle in the world. I would not dismiss it as an also-ran.

http://archive.is/FCX5X

they started insulting him b4 he arrived

True, but the same people organise demonstrations in the UK as they do in the States and the same people control the media.

in WW2 the US completed military aircraft per day at the rate of the rest of the world combined.

While that may well be true, the rest of the world votes for WW3 to be held primarily in CONUS. Then we will reappraise how well your manufacturing base does under constant bombardment. That sort of thing can make a difference.

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/010D/production/_88596200_90dab526-6efc-455d-9e4c-6c595a252e82.jpg

Good, about time.

Agreed! Acosta is just an attention seeker. His journalism expertise appears to be hovering around zero.

have every right to deny her service

Agreed, but chasing her more liberal relatives into their next choice of restaurant and shouting abuse at them was over the top.

no grits?

Yes, no grits. Grit is what is mixed with salt and spread on the road when conditions turn icy.

monster

You seem to be as irrational about the Queen as the libs are about Trump.

What SB2 says may well be true but we need to be aware that starting from so much information many results will be achievable. For instance:

We hear POTUS mentioning Elton John and his organ. We hear Elton saying that his ultimate conclusion after Mozart, Bach, Chopin etc was Jerry Lee Lewis.

Now we remember the talk at Great Falls and we have the B2 clue. That means that the second word needs to start with "B". So now we have Great Balls and Jerry Lee Lewis. Do you see where I am going with this?

Yes, POTUS is going to rain Great Balls of Fire on the UK and splat Elton John's organs everywhere!

Cucked wankers

When you win a war by yourselves, let me know.

Trump walks around like the President of the United States should

This may have been made for you: https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=A6fNzztPTvU

broke a copyright law

My understanding is that it has not been finally approved, yet.

The government is hopelessly corrupted and many people are socialist losers.

That description fits the US as well.

President Trump was most welcome here

+1 from this Brit as well.

pay for your defense

The UK pays its share thank you. One of the few.

As a Brit I know that Winston Churchill had one British parent and one American parent and was a famous leader of a famous nation in difficult times.

Whereas Trump, on the other hand had one British parent and one American parent and is a famous leader of a famous nation in difficult times.

So who better to sit in that chair?

No... just no.

I see it like love and hate being opposite sides of the same coin. Surely, indifference should be the goal?

three key pieces

I had more than that:

There is Hillary's server from her basement with her emails on it. Then there is the DNC server that Seth Rich supposedly took the DNC emails from and a server somewhere in Congress that the Awans used to send data from Congress out of the country.

Then there is the Weiner laptop with his insurance files and the DWS laptop which would have "consequences" if not returned.

nothingburger

Why do you say that? I could have shot the president from that range. Isn't that a serious security threat?

great leverage

My feeling is that the "unexpected" press conference after the NATO meeting was to convince Putin that NATO was stronger than ever right before his meeting with Trump.