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So excited to be meeting Chairman Kim Jong-un of North Korea. For a Summit about denuking -- denuclearization -- very important. Something no President has ever done. Time & place TBD, we'll do it by May. It will be a great meeting. And the menu will have American food.

UPDATE: going to check with my Staff about this. More info later!

Her "International Woman's Day" emojis have sparked an online backlash

Kim Kardashian's decision to launch a "women's empowerment" add-on to her personal emoji collection for International Women's Day has received a considerable online backlash.

The collection features slogans such as "nasty woman", "my body, my choice" and "full time feminist".

Some on social media celebrated the move as positive promotion of ideals of equality. Others accused the personality of hypocrisy because her other products and emojis are provocative and sexualised.

I am for them and I think a lot of them understand that. You know, I won many categories of women and the women vote in the election, and people were shocked to see it. I was running against a woman and I’m winning all of these categories. So many women came out to celebrate my inauguration. Very big march in Washington, one of the biggest crowds ever for an inauguration. And I think I would do even better right now.

Women have the best unemployment numbers that they’ve had in 17 years. And they’re doing tremendously in business, they’re doing tremendously in so many ways. And people are starting to see that.

I also think they want to feel safe at the border. I think they want to see our military get much stronger. Women want to see strong law enforcement. I’m very much a law-and-order person. There’s nobody better than me on the military. I think women really like that. Very proud of our women soldiers and pilots. I think they want to be safe at home, in many different respects. They want us to win the war on opioids. And above all they want us to be energy independent. So we don't go into so many wars in the Middle East.

I think we have to evolve. If we don’t evolve, there’s something missing. But I have tremendous respect for women. You see all of the women I have working around me and working with me. Tremendous respect for women.

But I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist. I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far. I’m for women, I’m for men, I’m for everyone. I think people have to go out, they have to go out and really do it, and they have to win. And women are doing great, and I’m happy about that.

Good news, folks. I'm moving very strongly on DRAINING THE SWAMP. Because I asked Gary Cohn to resign as my economic advisor. He's registered as a Democrat. And he has a long, sad history with Goldman Sachs, part of the global power structure, the global special interests, that have total control over Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted and so many of our politicians. Globalization has made the financial elite, who donate to politicians, very, very wealthy. I used to be one of them. I hate to say it, but I used to be one. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache. Gary wouldn't play ball on my beautiful new tariffs. He stood with the elites.

We allowed foreign countries to subsidize their goods, devalue their currencies, violate their agreements and cheat in every way imaginable, and our politicians did nothing about it. Trillions of our dollars and millions of our jobs flowed overseas as a result. I have visited cities and towns across this country where one-third or even half of manufacturing jobs have been wiped out in the last 20 years. Today, we import nearly $800 billion more in goods than we export. We can’t continue to do that. This is not some natural disaster, it’s a political and politician-made disaster. Very simple. And it can be corrected and we can correct it fast when we have people with the right thinking. Right up here. It is the consequence of a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism. This is a direct affront to our founding fathers. America wanted to be strong. They wanted this country to be strong. They wanted to be independent and they wanted it to be free.

And listen to this. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln -- nobody knows this, but he was a Republican -- warned that "the abandonment of the protective policy by the American government will produce WANT AND RUIN among our people." He understood it much better than our current politicians, that’s why he was Abraham Lincoln, I guess. Right?

Our founding fathers understood trade much better than our current politicians, believe me. When subsidized foreign steel is dumped into our markets, threatening our factories, the politicians have proven, folks, have proven they do nothing. We need to be one team, one people, one American family. Because all the other Countries are against us. I'm getting a fair deal for the American people. Now, it’s time for the American people to take back their future. Going to take it back. The era of economic surrender is finally OVER!

Coca-Cola plans to launch its first alcoholic drink

Coca-Cola is planning to produce an alcoholic drink for the first time in the company's 125-year history - with an alcopop-style product in Japan. It is keen to cash in on the country's growing taste for Chu-Hi - canned sparkling flavoured drinks given a kick with a local spirit called shochu. The product is typically between 3% and 8% alcohol by volume.

A senior Coke executive in Japan said the move was a "modest experiment for a specific slice of our market". "We haven't experimented in the low alcohol category before, but it's an example of how we continue to explore opportunities outside our core areas," said Jorge Garduno, Coca-Cola's Japan president. It was unlikely the drink would be sold outside of Japan, he suggested.

Some BBC commenterds want to ban alcopops.

Also at NPR and CNBC.

Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2018?

Which version of XKeyscore are we running on?

Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast

Crystal River teacher hosts white nationalist podcast, HuffPost reports

Meanwhile:

Here Are 911 Transcripts of Some of the Times Apple Employees Walked Directly Into Glass Walls

Friends, I know a lot of you have been worried about me. Some beautiful DMs. And I can almost hear your prayers, thank you for those. And I'm sure you're worried about our beautiful, beautiful White House in Washington. It wasn't beautiful, it's becoming beautiful. Because Melania and I are working very hard, fixing it up. My predecessors left it very dirty, we're cleaning up a lot of messes. And covering up so much. But I wasn't at the Washington White House today. I'm at my Southern White House, Mar-a-Lago, in beautiful Florida (why does President Putin hate Florida so much?). Not in Washington. But our thoughts & prayers are with the family of the late Shooter, RIP!!!! And with everybody who got spattered. The guy wasn't a bad dude, maybe sick. Probably sick, nobody was in danger. Can we call it suicide? Why not, right? But let me tell you, he left a terrible mess. Not as bad as the mess Obama left me with, nowhere near as bad as that one. My Secret Service, as always, did a great job! Thank you and thanks to our wonderful first responders, our Police & EMTs. And our Coroner, very tough job, you have to be a very tough cookie to do that one, am I right, folks? If Crooked Hillary had won, she'd be keeping our Coroner very busy. And maybe she is anyway. Seth Rich, so tragic, he was a true patriot. As everybody knows. I'm having a fabulous weekend and I wish the same to every American. God bless! secretservice.gov/data/press/releases/2018/18-MAR/GPA_Secret_Service_Statement_Regarding_March_3,_2018_Shooting_Incident_Near_the_White_House.pdf

Hi-Rez president compares new ‘Overwatch’ hero to a ‘Paladins’ protagonist

Just bookmarking so I can check out the videogamedunkey video later.

Nintendo Holds Off on Switch 2.0, Looks to Peripherals for More Sales

It would be bizarre to release a new version of Switch so soon. They talk about a slimmed down version (rather than a mid-cycle upgrade like PS4 Pro or Xbox One X). Compare to PS4 (Nov 2013) and PS4 Slim (Sep 2016), and Xbox One (Nov 2013) and Xbox One S (Aug 2016). In fact, the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X didn't come out very long after the slimmed down versions.

What they could do is drop in newer ARM CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. Even if they underclock and keep performance almost the same, the console would benefit from lower power consumption since it is battery-powered in handheld mode.

The opioids have turned into a very big problem for our Country. It’s been going on too long. So I'm listening. I'm holding a Summit. Watch it LIVE at 1 pm EST, noon central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific, 8 am in Hawaii -- they're part of our Country now. youtu.be/C15wK65Luvs #TrumpTV