In this video, Al-Jazeera reports on a city in Inner Mongolia that’s almost completely empty.

It was built with stimulus money in order to boost China's GDP numbers, and its apartments & stores were sold to real-estate investors who have been led to believe that property prices will never fall...but no one actually lives or works there!

The Honorable Tom Carper
Hart Senate Office Building Suite 513
Washington DC 20510-0802
http://carper.senate.gov/contact/

The Honorable Ted Kaufman
Russell Senate Office Building Suite 383
Washington DC 20510-0801
http://kaufman.senate.gov/services/contact/

Dear Senators,

True healthcare reform requires less government involvement, not more.

In a letter to me on 12/2 Senator Carper said:

Bill Morris, founder of the Libertarian Party of Delaware (LPD) and Seniors Against Federal Extravagance (SAFE), has started a "microblog" to comment on the Wilmington News Journal's coverage of global warming. You can find it at http://www.s-a-f-e.org/global_warming.htm

The Honorable Tom Carper
Hart Senate Office Building Suite 513
Washington DC 20510-0802
http://carper.senate.gov/contact/

Cc: The Honorable Ted Kaufman
Russell Senate Office Building Suite 383
Washington DC 20510-0801
http://kaufman.senate.gov/services/contact/

Dear Senator Carper:

True healthcare reform requires less government involvement, not more.

Senator Carper, your form-letter response on 12/2 to my messages about the Senate Health Care Bill was completely deceitful and unacceptable. Please remember that we sent you to Washington to represent the interests of the people of Delaware, not those of the Democratic Party leadership.

Today I received Senator Carper's reply to my letter about Civil Asset Forfeiture. I was not satisfied by his answer, and here I how I responded:

Dear Senator Carper:

Thank you for your reply to my recent message regarding Civil Asset Forfeiture. You (or your staff) said:

Civil asset forfeiture programs violate several provisions of the Bill of Rights. Please introduce legislation to abolish civil asset forfeiture.

Civil asset forfeiture is not confiscation of contraband or illegal goods. It's not property that has been withheld as evidence during a criminal investigation. It's not a fine or restitution imposed on someone duly convicted of a crime.

Today was Newark Community Day, a local fair held annually on the University of Delaware's campus.

As usual the LPD ran an Operation Politically Homeless booth and Information table. We distributed party literature, including a flyer opposing the City of Newark's plan to have the General Assembly grant it very broad and vaguely defined new powers of taxation; and we collected names and email addresses of interested people.

The Libertarian Party of Delaware is seeking donations of used or new computer hardware. If you have any unused computer equipment taking up space, please consider giving it to us.

What we need most is a server class Pentium4 (or better) multiprocessor system. But any hardware that is less than ten years old is welcome. For example:

• Complete systems, especially Laptops / Notebooks, working or not.
• Components, such as motherboards, CPUs, memory, peripheral cards, SATA drives, tape drives, DVD burners, monitors, etc.