The Babcock Ranch community near Ft Meyers shows building a resilient and low-carbon America will save both money and lives. We need to start now. The media is all over the story that Governor DeSantis was notified that the danger threshold for evacuation was hit on Sunday, but he waited until Tuesday to order one (leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake).

But there's another story out of Florida — a good news story — that's not getting anything close to the coverage it deserves.

Just 12 miles northeast of Fort Meyers — a community devastated by the hurricane with total loss of power, water, and massive loss of life — another community not only came through the hurricane just fine but never even lost power.

If you've been watching the coverage, you know by now that much of the loss of life in Florida was in Lee County. What you may not know is that the Babcock Ranch community — a small town, really, partly in Lee County — not only suffered only minimal damage but is now a refuge for people displaced by the storm.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Although the increasingly unrestrained marketplace that Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis warn of makes it hard for many companies to emphasize community values, some still do. Others are recognizing the need to respond to human demands for a cleaner, safer, less toxic world.

Additionally, many people are fortunate enough to work in an industry they love, and the love of railroads or automobiles or flying or medicine has motivated the start-up and the ongoing operation of many of what are now the world's best companies.

In my experience in business, it's the people who care about their industry or area of expertise who are the most likely to be successful.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— DeSantis, after rejecting "socialism" to help out Hurricane Sandy victims in 2013, is suddenly a socialist.
— Is Putin trying to start WWIII or is this all just an elaborate strategy to "declare victory and go home"?
— Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell's favorite Russian oligarch/criminal Oleg Deripaska — who helped him get re-elected in 2020 — was just indicted by the Department of Justice.
— I'm the first to admit this may be a loony conspiracy theory, but I'm wondering if Jerome Powell and the Oil Companies are both working to kneecap the economy just in time for the November 8th election?
— Our federal judiciary is now at "peak corruption" and we can thank Trump and McConnell for most of it.
— In an extraordinary show of bad faith and corruption, the three Republican members of the Federal Election Commission have spent the past 5 years blocking any serious investigations of Republican and Trump criminality.
— Yes, Trump was just as childish and emotionally dysfunctional as we all thought.
— Geeky Science: Can cardamom save your life?
— Crazy Alert! Fox "News" channel tells us that, just like with guns, the time after a disaster should not entertain discussions of actual science and solutions.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Why Babcock Ranch Survived Hurricane Ian but Others Florida Cities Didn't" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Energiewende infographics" by Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Article: "The Acceleration Of PV And The Role Of The German Programme" by Dr. Herman Scheer.

Article: "North America – Western Europe equivalent latitude maps" by mathowie.

Site: Babcock Ranch News.

Article: "Babcock Ranch: Development Milestones".

Article: "Speeches of Hermann Scheer Series, Speech 1: "Lipservice, Excuses, And The Lack of Courage”" by Thomas Gerke.

Article: "German legislators fight over policy rollback on renewables" by Craig Morris.

Site: "Centre de Cultura Contemporà nia de Barcelona"

Article: "California's Solar Roof Mandate" by LPDD.

Article: "Solar PV module prices" by Our World In Data.

Tweet: "Hundreds of dead bodies found in Lee County, Florida. DeSantis stands by decision to wait until day before landfall to order evacuations in Lee County. H/t @SarahBurris @Acosta [video]" by Daniel Uhlfelder.

Article: "Germany Flirts With Power Crunch in Nuclear and Coal Exit" by Vanessa Dezem and Josefine Fokuhl.

Article: "2022 Building Energy Efficiency Standards" by California Energy Commission.

Article: "Analysing the feasibility of powering the Americas with renewable energy and inter-regional grid interconnections by 2030" by Arman Aghahosseini, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Larissa S.N.S. Barbosa, Christian Breyera.

Article: "Solar Industry Research Data" by SEIA.

Article: "The German Experiment" by Evan I. Schwartz.

Article: "Democratic foe attacks Ron DeSantis over Hurricane Ian response " by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Factbox-Over 590,000 Still Without Power in Florida After Hurricane Ian" by Reuters.

Article: "'Shaken' law professors revolt as hyper-partisan SCOTUS rulings 'upend constitutional principles'" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Justice Kagan cautions Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy " by Mark Sherman.

Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).

Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Case: "Lawrence v Texas" (2003) (made same-sex sexual activity legal).

Case: "Loving v Virginia" (1967) (interracial marriage).

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court: What the Trend of Unanimous Decisions Really Means" by Elizabeth Slattery.

Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.

Article: "National Archives claims some Trump records from White House still missing" by Mark Moore.

Article: "Questions raised over 2021 footage of Trump taking boxes from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster" by Oliver O'Connell.

Article: "Jeffrey Epstein" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What we know about Trump and the empty folders" by Aaron Blake.

Hour Two: Trump & Those Around Him - The Criminal Mindset? Pee Tape?
- Michael Cohen, principle of Crisis-X (crisis management company) / previously, served as personal attorney to former president Donald. J. Trump / formerly Executive VP-Trump Organization & Special Counsel to Donald J. Trump / Author-Disloyal: A Memoir / Host-Mea Culpa With Michael Cohen podcast / Political Commentator / forthcoming book Revenge

Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "President Trump's staggering record of uncharged criminal misconduct " by Conor Shaw.

Article: "Trump regime's amazing list of crimes keeps getting longer — but we can't afford to look away" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings" by Nathan Layne, Ned Parker, Svetlana Reiter, Stephen Grey and Ryan McNeill.

Article: "Eric Trump Reportedly Bragged About Access to $100 Million in Russian Money" by Tina Nguyen.

Article: "Judge finds Michael Cohen's return to prison 'retaliatory,' orders his release" by Pete Williams and Tom Winter.

Article: "William Barr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Donald Trump-Russia dossier" (Steele dossier) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What You Need to Know About the Trump 'Pee Pee' Tape" by VICE.

Article: "These Are the Dictators Donald Trump Loves" by Michael Weiss.

Article: "There's a Lot Going On in Michael Cohen's Sentencing Memo" by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes.

Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.

Article: "Russia's millionaires dying in 'epidemic of murder' to fund Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, says campaigner" by Samantha Hawley and Flint Duxfield.

Article: "Trump's racist comment on Elaine Chao, McConnell's wife, draws criticism from the right" by Merdie Nzanga.

Article: "Trump escalates attacks on McConnell with ‘DEATH WISH' post" by Isaac Arnsdorf.

Article: "OPEC Plus Considering Major Production Cut to Prop Up Oil Prices" by Stanley Reed.

Article: "October surprise" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "US strategic oil reserves have hit their lowest level since 1985 after Joe Biden's record sales" by Harry Robertson.

Article: "Kwasi Kwarteng to bring forward debt-cutting plan after tax U-turn" by George Parker, Sebastian Payne and Jim Pickard.

Article: "'Enough is Enough': Hundreds of Thousands March Across the UK" by Common Dreams.

Article: "Was Thatcher a neoliberal?" by EconomicsExplorer.

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Taxes and a Two-Santa Theory" by Jude Wanniski.

Article: "Here are the Supreme Court's top cases this term " by AP.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 Section 1. "...Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector...."

Article: "How the Supreme Court could give Republicans more power with elections" by Amber Phillips.

Case: "Bush v. Gore" ("irreparable harm").

Site: Indivisible.

Site: Daily Kos.

Article: "The Carlson-Kremlin feedback loop" by Matt Gertz.

Article: "MAGA Media Salivates Over Italy's Most Far-Right Leader Since Mussolini" by Justin Baragona.

Article: "Giorgia Meloni" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cuddles can mend damage to hearts from heart attacks, research finds" by Mail on Sunday.

Article: "The lightbulb moment: the rapid shift to LEDs and ultra efficient lighting " by Rapid Transitions Alliance.

Article: "Trump: Nobody has been tougher on Russia than me" by Brett Samuels.

Video: "Ex-oligarch says Putin made a dangerous move and is risking his life" by Fareed Zakaria.

Article: "Ukraine claims battlefield victory and seeks to join NATO" by Stefan J. Bos.

Site: State Gas Price Averages.

Article: "History of the Venezuelan oil industry" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Citgo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Germany's former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to join Gazprom board" by DW.

Article: "Ex-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder turns down role on Gazprom board" by DW.

Article: "ArtI.S2.C5.1 Impeachment Overview" by Congress.

Article: "ArtII.S2.C1.3.1 Overview of the Pardon Power" by Congress.

Article: "Dunn County referendum asks federal government to nationalize health care" by Audrey Korte.

Article: "Map shows how fallout from disaster at Ukrainian nuclear plant would spread" by Snejana Farberov.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter / Author of several books including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / Filmmaker - his latest, "Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman", produced by Martin Sheen which debuting this week, will be here to talk about the film

Plus, I'll be talking with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent of London / Previously worked for the Financial Times / Author of 5 books on the Middle East, including his latest: Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East about the return of polio

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"

And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...

Why This Florida Community Survived Hurricane Ian

Was Trump Just Petty Criminal Playing Mob Boss? Featuring Michael Cohen

Kathy Lost a Family Member To For Profit Healthcare

Why Isn't Trump's Biggest Crime Being Reported?

Text Messages Prove Jan 6 Mob Wanted To Kill Democratic Party Leaders