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Germany is sending hundreds of soldiers to the Baltic region near the Russian border as part of NATO’s anti-Russia force. The troops will form part of a NATO force to deter Russia by deploying combat battalions in the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as well as in Poland. Press TV reports: The 500-strong military contingent, including 450 troops from German armed forces and the rest from Belgium and the Netherlands, assembled in the Bavarian town of Oberviechtach on Thursday for deployment to Lithuania.

Trump's 16 minute, 12 second, 1455 word inaugural address is the shortest since President Carter in 1977 (and second shortest to Kennedy since the end of World War II). The brevity, however, did not hide the tone...

Carter and Kennedy were the closest in terms of brevity...

Source: The American Presidency Project

Butthe following word cloud makes it very clear what the focus of his speech was...

h/t @BBCBarbaraPlett

America, First!

President Trump’s economic plan will create 25 million new jobs in next decade, “return to 4 percent annual economic growth,” "lower rates for Americans in every tax bracket, simplify the tax code, and reduce the U.S. corporate tax rate” according to a statement just posted on the White House wesbite.

He has also proposed “a moratorium on new federal regulations and is ordering the heads of federal agencies and departments to identify job-killing regulations.”

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Republicans, Democrats, and Voodoo Economics

Written by Jeff Nielson (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL)

While the US public and global markets will be transfixed by the events in Washington today, Trump's emerging nemesis in the upcoming trade wars, China, has decided to avoid the event altogether. According to the FT, Beijing's infamous censors have ordered media outlets to mute their reporting of Trump’s inauguration "as the Communist party continues to weigh its response to a new administration that has threatened to tear up the rule book of US-China relations."