This is the Tom Hartman program.

You know, Lewis Powell back in 1971 in his infamous memo

said that Ralph Nader, the guy who wrote the forward to my next book,

the hidden history of monopolies and the destruction of the American dream,

Ralph Nader and Rachel Carson, wrote Silent Spring exposing how pesticides were

specifically DDT was killing birds.

Louis Powell in 71 said that Ralph Nader and Rachel Carson were the villains. They were the ones

he said that were going to destroy America. He said that the growing calls for

regulation on in this case car safety and pesticide safety to protect

American citizens from death and poisoning he said that these were and I

quote from the Powell memo quote an attack on the American Free Enterprise System, end quote.

What I think is the biggest story of the, maybe of the month, maybe of the year,

and it's being largely ignored by the corporate media,

Donald Trump signed an executive order

telling all the regulatory agencies, the FCC, the EPA, the Interior Department, the

Food and Drug Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture,

I mean you name it, every agency, nuclear regulatory agency, every agency that they could quote use any and all authority to

waive suspend and eliminate unnecessary regulations that impede

economic recovery end End quote.

It was a big wet kiss to his funders in the fossil fuel industry,

the chemical industry, and other industries.

And he went on to say, in a tweet a little later on in the day and he said it at

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