Americans Believe Global Warming Not

VIVAnews - According to the latest survey by researchers at Yale University & George Mason, United States citizens are considered less concerned with not even care about the issue of global warming.

According to the survey, only about half of Americans who now say "somewhat" to "very" concerned about the issue of global warming. How ironic, this number dropped 63 percent compared to similar research in the last year.

Indeed, only about 57 percent who believe it will happen, down 14 percent than in 2009. And, now only a small proportion who agree that this is caused by human activity.

However, when it was ironic the number of Americans who do not care about the issue of global pemasanan very dramatically increased lately. Unfortunately, most respondents believe that they will be flown to a safer place later.

"Despite scientific evidence due to issues of global pemasanan begin serious look around the world, public opinion in the U.S. actually moves in the opposite direction," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale Project on Climate Change, which cited VIVAnews from TG Daily, Saturday, January 30 2010.

"Over the past year, the United States has experienced an increase in unemployment until frustrated with Washington as the financial crisis, which pushed the change coverage in the media coverage," said Leiserowitz.

"Plus, there's a case of one set of emails from climate scientists who stole the critics, who then become the basis that the claims of climate change turned out to contain many errors. This leads to erosion of public confidence in the research of climate scientists," he explained.

This survey shows that the public did not care anymore with scientific opinion of scientists published. The number of Americans who believe that global warming will happen down about 34 percent.

In the meantime, found 40 percent of respondents now believe there is disagreement antarilmuwan about global warming.

"The scientific evidence is very clear, climate change is a reality that will happen. It's all human activity and a serious threat to society in America and around the world," said Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University.

"Erosion of public trust and concern about global warming ought to call people and organizations to be more intensively educate the public about this important issue," he said.

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The Law of Moses and the Believer

What is the status of Moses' law today? In short, law lives. But it can harm us no more. The original law came by Moses (John 1:17 )and because of the weakness of our flesh condemned us, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, who promised us He did not intend to destroy the law, but to be sure it is fulfilled (in Him and in us).

Law lives. How do I know? Because sin lives, and sin is the transgression of law. Every man who confesses his sin admits to the broken law of God. The difference between now and then or if you will, us and them, is not lawlessness but forgiveness.

Law, a major part of Scripture, lives, but now we dread not its pages. Rather we can be enriched by the "encouragement of the Scripture" (Romans 15:4). For the unconvinced we will look at some of Paul's heaviest teachings about the law, in summaries of the teachings of Romans and Galatians .

Romans: Romans 2. Law is everywhere, whether handed down from Sinai or built into Gentile thinking by the passing down of truths from the creation. We are told that we cannot boast in the law, because we are all lawbreakers. Circumcision is added as a seal of the Old Covenant if the covenant-maker is perfectly obedient in every way. Since that never happened, and all are lawbreakers, circumcision is a meaningless sign now, and the New Covenant is sealed by a circumcision of the Spirit.

Romans 3. We can never be justified by law, but we cannot with our sin make void law either. In fact, our constant breaking of the law establishes that holy piece of work!

Romans 4: Where there is no law, there is no transgression , for sin is the transgression of the law.

Romans 5: Sin was in the world before the law was given, but not imputed to man, not clearly defined, not placed in men's accounts. When it did come to us, it was to expose sin for what it is. This is still its purpose. It teaches us our need and brings us to Jesus.

Romans 6: Now we are not under the law. But law lives. Sin shall not have dominion over us. But sin is a possibility. Sin lives.

Romans 7: We are dead to the law (which lives) through the Body of Christ. We are delivered from the law, this fearful taskmaster that kept us in bondage. But now, as prophesied by Jeremiah we serve in the newness of the Spirit, who does God's law in us. The law is not sin! But we know sin through the law. We are "alive" without the law. But when the law comes, we are exposed, we "die". The law is holy and we delight in it with our mind. No one should hate the law of God and consider it a thing to be destroyed! Jesus never did. No one should pray to be delivered from the law of God, but from the curse connected to it. One who is without law is lawless , and there is nothing but contempt in Scripture for the spirit of lawlessness, II Thessalonians 2. What we want is freedom from its curse, not its righteousness! Though I do delight in it, there is another law inside me against the original law: it's called sin.

Romans 8: My flesh makes the law seem weak. But Jesus condemned sin in the flesh. Now the requirement of the law is fulfilled in those who walk by the Spirit, just as Jeremiah and Jesus both taught.

Galatians: Galatians 2. No flesh will ever be justified by the works of the law. Through the law we died to the law, and there is no righteousness to be gained through trying to keep law, whether Sinai's or the expanded revelations of Jesus and the apostles.

Galatians 3. One cannot receive the Spirit or any of His gifts by keeping the law. To be "under" the law is to be under a curse, for, as he quotes from Deuteronomy 27:26, "...cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law." But Jesus became the curse for us and sets us free to keep the law's requirements.

Galatians 5. We are to maintain our liberty by not being entangled with the curse again. Yet he says in the same chapter that all the law is fulfilled in the love of neighbor that flows from the Spirit-filled believer. He tells us to walk in the Spirit and we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, to be led by the Spirit since we are not now under the law.

So the connection between law and believer is not as simple as we might have suspected. The law lives, and through the Spirit expresses itself in a righteous life, pleasing to God the Father.

Political Consulting

Political consulting is the business which has grown up around advising and assisting political campaigns, primarily in the United States. As democracy has spread around the world, American political consultants have often developed an international base of clients. Though its most important role is probably in the production of mass media (largely television), political consultants advise campaigns on virtually all of their activities,from research to field strategy.

The practice of consulting has several early precedents. President William McKinley's closest political advisor Mark Hanna is sometimes described as the first political consultant. In California in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitaker and Baxter established and grew the first true consulting firm, Campaigns, Inc. However, political consulting blossomed with the increasing use of television advertising for campaign communications in the 1960s. It was in that period that Joe Napolitan claims to have become the first person to describe himself as a political consultant (Perlmutter, ed. Manship Guide to Political Communication, pg19).

In the subsequent years, political consulting has grown in importance and influence and extended its reach to campaigns at all levels of government in the United States, and beyond. Many consultants work not only for campaigns, but also for other political
organizations, including parties and political action committees, sometimes through independent expenditures; some also do public relations and research work for corporations and governments. In fact, today corporations seeking approval from municipal boards have turned to land use political consultants to help earn need entitlements for their project.

Critics also blame political consulting, at least in part, for a variety of ills of the modern election process. In part because broadcast media consultants are often paid on commission, they are blamed specifically for the rising cost of political campaigns and the increasing reliance on paid media. A successful candidate running a low-budget campaign would be a serious economic threat to the political consulting field; such candidates, however, are rare.

Left-leaning activists within the Democratic Party, in particular, charge that political consultants are a major obstacle to participatory democracy, political reform, and electoral success for the Democrats. In a much-publicized e-mail on December 9, 2004, the online activist group MoveOn.org wrote, "For years, the Party has been led by elite Washington insiders who are closer to corporate lobbyists than they are to the Democratic base. But we can't afford four more years of leadership by a consulting class of professional election losers."

Lastly, there is growing professional opposition to what is called a cookie cutter campaign, where the themes and strategies of one campaign are transferred to another campaign, despite what may be major differences in political context. Brian Wright, president of Democrasource, LLC (an Ohio based national political consulting firm specializing in enhanced campaign data strategies and micro-targeting), believes that "it’s just a matter of time, campaign communications techniques are evolving so quickly -- anyone sitting on the sidelines or clinging to the last presidential campaign’s strategies is done. The book’s been rewritten."

U.S. Supports Montenegro To Become Member of NATO

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton United States Wednesday expressed support for the U.S. in Montenegro efforts to become NATO members as the Balkan country's continued political reform.

Condoleezza Rice was "promised U.S. support for Montenegro to be an integral part of the European-Atlantic community while standing near the Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic who was visiting the United States.

"I offer the U.S. support for Montenegro a number of reforms in the field of legal norms of NATO and the European Union wants," Hillary said in Washington.

He congratulated Montenegro on the country's entry in NATO's Membership Action Plan last month, a precursor of full membership, and thanks to the prime minister over his government's commitment to send infantry troops joined the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan.

Hillary hopes to meet PM Djukanovic invitation to visit Montenegro on one day.

Djukanovic said that "I want to announce with certainty that Montenegro will become a new member of NATO" while the government's intention to deliver increased legal norms.

"We keep this promise made to improve the quality of life of our citizens and accept the goals of Europe and Europe-Atlantic ... as soon as possible," he said through a translator.

"I want to emphasize on this occasion also that Montenegro is and will remain a responsible partner and trusted for the U.S. and EU in dealing with problems that are still not settled in the Balkans," he said.

"And we also will work closely with our partners in other areas outside our region, starting with Afghanistan," he said.

U.S. Aircraft Attack Kills 10 People in Pakistan

Missile attack unmanned aircraft of the United States intended to guerrilla training camps in the tribal belt of northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, said the security officers.

The attack happened in the village Pasalkot, in North Waziristan, a Taliban stronghold and the Al Qaeda network, and a seventh missile that the U.S. allegedly committed against the tribe's district during this month.

"At least 10 people were killed in the missile attack," said a senior officer.

He added that four missiles fired from unmanned aircraft that.

A local intelligence officer told AFP, confirming that the bombing was: "is an attack a U.S. unmanned aircraft that took place between 07.00-08.00 o'clock local time."

He said the area was hit by an attack near the border with South Waziristan, a Taliban stronghold where the military more recently Pakistan was locked with a single attack to dismantle the guerrilla stronghold.

"At least 10 people, mostly militants, were killed in the missile attack. The number of casualties is expected to increase," the officer said.

"The raid targeted a guerrilla training camp."

But do not be obtained immediately clear, if there is a senior guerrillas who died in the attack.

These are the seven missile strikes carried out a reconnaissance planes in the U.S. so far this year, when the government of U.S. President Barack Obama putting Pakistan in the heart of their opposition to Al Qaeda insurgents and other groups.

Alleged attack unmanned U.S. aircraft attacking a target of increasing North Waziristan. North Waziristan is a regional defense fighters of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Haqqani network of 113,000 to attack U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, its neighbors.

Washington increase pressure on Pakistan to deal with guerrillas who use their homeland to launch attacks in Afghanistan.

American officials said that attack programs unmanned aircraft have been destroyed several famous fighters.

But the attacks on Pakistan's territory, causing incessant anti-American sentiment in Muslim countries that have nuclear weapons, and the government openly condemned the attacks because it violates the sovereignty of Pakistan.

However, a U.S. senator last Wednesday accused Pakistan's leaders and accusing them, personally supports missile attacks while the U.S. criticized the community.

"It is difficult for me was a general attack against the attacks that unmanned aircraft, while at the same time they personally did not tell us that we must stop it. They did not do it," said Senator Carl Levin.

Pakistan leaders not only understand and agree, but in many cases personally supported the attacks that unmanned aircraft, said Levin.

More than 700 people were killed in the attack around 77 unmanned aircraft in Pakistan since August 2008, but U.S. officials did not confirm the individual attacks.

PM Italy Return to Work

Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi returned to work Monday, after recovering from the attack on December 13, when the protesters attacked him in the face at a political meeting in Milan, so he should be hospitalized for severe injuries.

Berlusconi convey optimism and belief that 2010 will be the year of structural reforms, including implementation of important tax legislation with the aim of supporting families and workers.

"I think we can make it special if all political parties to work toward the same goal," said Berlusconi. He pointed to the fact that the opposition must do its part and work together.

Many fans welcomed him back to his villa in Rome. Following the attacks, support for the PM was up to more than 3%.

On Monday, he addressed a meeting of justice by Justice Minister Angelino Alfano and met with President Giorgio Napolitano.

The main priority of Berlusconi's agenda is to change the Italian judicial system by shortening the trial process. The goal, according to the opposition, is to protect Berlusconi from the two courts that are waiting continuation following a high court appeal in October about the law that gave Prime is immune from punishment.

In one trial, Berlusconi accused of paying former tax adviser who was a British, David Mills, U.S. $ 600 thousand, cash bribes to misleading evidence in the corruption trial of two processes in the 1990s. On Monday, the Italian Supreme Court set a hearing process on February 25 for final appeals Mill.

In the second trial, AM was charged with tax fraud in connection with the purchase of TV rights by Mediaset announcer during the 1990s.

If the bill is to shorten the length of the court process into law and applied with retroactive period, the two cases that Berlusconi is waiting process will automatically "time out".

Conversely, if the parliament stopped the draft, the government is expected to submit versions of immunity for law changes passed by a careful examination of the high court.

However, Berlusconi on Monday stressed that the draft is not "favorable action himself" but for the benefit of the rights of freedom of each person.

Berlusconi has repeatedly denied all the charges against him. He claimed to be victims of back-launched political revenge by the prosecutor and judge "Communist".

Sri Lanka Rebels Free Former Tamil 700

Sri Lanka Saturday to free more than 700 former Tamil Tiger rebels from military custody after they undergo rehabilitation program, said an official.

President Mahinda Rajapakse, who was a visit to Vavuniya town in southern Sri Lanka, handed over the former fighters were in their immediate family, a military official involved in rehabilitation, Major General Resources Ratyanake, explained.

"From about 12,000 Tamil Tiger rebels who undergo vocational programs, we have identified about 800 people who are less involved with the Tamil Tiger movement," he added.

He said 713 of the 800 people who have been identified to be released it has been handed over to their parents Saturday while others will be released soon,

Some of the Tamil Tiger rebels had surrendered to security forces while others were arrested from among nearly 300,000 civilians who have been abandoned-war camp moved to the last stage of burial in a battle last year.

About a third of the former rebels had been trained in brazing job installing water pipes and plumbing, masonry, carpentry and electrician jobs as part of their rehabilitation.

Some ex-fighters have been released in the past to go abroad, to migrate or work, but their number is not known.

Tamil Tigers, who fought for a separate homeland from 1972, was defeated by Sri Lanka army in mid-May when the army killed rebel leader Velupillai Prabbakaran highest.

Iranian Opposition attacked the car shot

Armored car one of the Iranian opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, was attacked by gunfire in the city of Qazvin, northern Iran, according to a news site reported his party, Friday, but only the glass is broken.

Karroubi was in town to show mourning for the dead opposition protesters organized by a former reformist member of parliament, said Sahamnews.org site.

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"About 500 basiji (members of the Basij Islamic militia) and the nearby villagers surrounded the house where he was and attacked the building with stones, breaking windows," he said.

After four hours, police riot finally intervened to remove from the building Karroubi.

"When the car moves away, the vehicle was attacked and hit by gunfire. However, because the armored car, only the windows broken," says the site.

There are no immediate statement from the government about the incident.

News site that quoted Karroubi said, the guards did not respond to shooting.

"My guards did not respond to shooting because they will be brought to court and face charges, unlike the attacker's assault," said Karroubi.

Attackers shouting slogans supporting the Islamic government and the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to the news site.

Rajanews.com conservative sites close to the government confirmed that the group attacked the vehicle of mass Karroubi stone throwers but did not mention the shooting.

According to the site, the police tried several times to open the way for the car Karroubi, who pelted stones, eggs and tomatoes.

"The mass of angry shouting` Death to Karroubi! Death for Mousavi! Death to Khatami! `," He said.

Karroubi, former chairman of the reformist-leaning parliament, and Mir Hossein Mousavi are two declared presidential candidates who lost in elections last June. The two leaders were still insisting that the election was rigged to put more Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

The former reformist president Mohammad Khatami was the main supporter in the election Mousavi.

Large protests raged since the election and a large number of people arrested.

More than 100 senior reformists, activists, journalists and others who were arrested after the June elections were reportedly still inside the prison and some have been tried on charges of stirring unrest in the streets. The opposition denounced the trial.

Including those on trial are employees of the British embassy and the French and a French woman who became a university teaching assistant.

So far a number of people sentenced to death and dozens of people were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized the post-election protests and give unconditional support to Mr Ahmadinejad and announced that the election was legitimate, although many parties in question.

Hardline faction in Iran has accused the opposition supporters, who descended into the streets to protest Ahmadinejad's re-election as president, supported and directed by the Western powers, particularly the U.S. and the UK.

World leaders voiced increasing concern over the riots, which had shaken the pillars of Islamic government and raised fears about the future of the country's Shia Muslim, the fourth largest oil producer of the world.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has led Iran to the clash with the West during the first four years of his power with slogans of anti-Israel and attitude of defiance regarding his country's nuclear program, declared the winner by getting 63% of the vote in these elections.

The Iranian leader condemns "interference" of Western countries, especially the U.S. and the UK, and accused the foreign media, which has faced strict restrictions on their work, have been fueling the unrest in Iran.

Cuban official protest U.S. Inspection Policy

Cuba, Tuesday, delivered a formal protest to the United States of new rules to tighten checks on security for airline passengers traveling from or through Cuba and 13 other countries.

Cuban Foreign Minister said the company calling Jonathan Farrar, who heads the U.S. Interests Section in Swiss Embassy in Havana in order to submit objections.

"We reject the new evil actions committed the United States government that included Cuba in the so-called list of countries supporting terrorism," said the message.

Cuban official daily Granma criticized the new policy that the United States Monday, calling him a "paranoid anti-terrorist".

Affairs of the U.S. Transportation Security (TSA) said that the new policy, including increased checks to all international passengers entering the United States airport, and the tightening of checks mandatory for passengers originating or through 14 states. Fourteen countries other than Cuba are the countries predominantly Muslim.

Countries that become targets of the new policy include among others Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria, all countries that support terrorism by the U.S..

This policy was also applied to the passengers who travel from or through Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria.

Currently there are no regular plane flying from Cuba to the United States, but four aircraft per day connecting Havana with three cities in the United States, including Miami, where more than one million refugees and Cuban immigrants settled.

Aircraft increased to eight aircraft per day in late December, after United States President Barack Obama before pulling some travel restrictions to Cuba and sending.

Washington stop diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961 and to impose sanctions to the economic boycott that the communist country.

Both governments recently resumed dialogue on migration issues and the post, but efforts to end the boycott was still blocked by the United States, which insisted that Cuba must change its policies once, while Havana assess the United States must do the same.

Hillary Warn U.S. Yemen Update List As Terrorists

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States, Hillary Clinton, said Monday the rebellion in Yemen threatens global stability after Western countries closed their embassy in Sana `a and Washington to update the search list, black list of terrorists and flight restrictions.

"Chaos in Yemen is a threat to regional stability and even global stability," said Hillary told reporters after talks with Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani.

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"And of course, we know that this is a difficult challenge, but they will be facing us," he said at the time the U.S. government struggled to deal with the impact of jet aircraft bombing attempts by Al Qaeda network in Yemen.

He noted that Washington was working closely with allies countries to mempetakan `the best way forward in resolving` security issues.

Warnings that al Qaeda possible attack against Washington, so the U.S. closed its embassy in the Yemeni capital, on Sunday.

British and French authorities also closed its embassy in Sana `a, while Japan konsulernya cancel service at its embassy.

U.S. will reopen its embassy in Yemen, `if the conditions allow`, said Mrs.. Clinton.

He added that security issues are still remained in the observation.

Concerns have been around a long time that Yemen became safe haven for terrorist groups hardline. It was more intense when a Nigerian man allegedly trained in Yemen, accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on December 25.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23 years old, reportedly claimed to be trained by an Al Qaeda bomb maker in Yemen, for her suicide mission on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

The effort failed when the explosives he had hidden in his underwear failed to explode, and the passengers get him.

U.S. President Barack Obama explained that while Abdulmutallab lived in Yemen last summer, where he allegedly made contact with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

AQAP himself admitted it was responsible for planning suicide bombings.

U.S. Secretary of State noted that it was studying the back, if there are changes in procedures that allow Abdulmutallab up in Amsterdam-Detroit flight was.

The bombing was trying to trigger a re-examination of the terrorist blacklist U.S. searches, and add dozens more suspected party list for the `forbidden to fly.`

"Perhaps thousands of names presented, and perhaps dozens of names were removed from the list," said White House spokesman, Bill Burton, told reporters Monday. He was referring to the list to decide, whether a person was allowed to fly with the U.S. goal of an overseas airport.

New regulations in the international airports also have been in effect since Monday morning, which means that all passengers with the U.S. goal has since become the subject of examination bodies and luggage at random.

Enhanced security measures for all passengers who come from or through the 14 countries associated with terrorism, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Politics - The Ugliest Fascination on Earth

No matter where you live, politics probably plays a part in your day to day life. You might not immediately deal with political issues, but you can be sure that politics plays a part in what you do! Whether it is office politics deciding who gets that raise you've been hoping for; city politics determining where you are allowed to park downtown; county politics dictating your quarterly property tax or even nationwide politics deciding how your schools are funded, politics plays a part in your daily life.

It is important then that you understand what politics really is. Politics, at its core, is defined by Wikipedia as the process by which groups of people make decisions. At its core, politics sounds quite simple. What makes it complicated are the individuals involved in making the decisions. Because human beings are not perfect, the political system is never going to be perfect. This is something that most people don't understand about politics. You can put all of the pomp and circumstance into politics that you want, in the end; it is more about human beings getting their way than about the process itself.

It has been said quite often that politics is a dirty business. In the United States Congress, for example, politics has taken on an air of hatred and manipulation. Many citizens of the United States feel that they are left out of the process of politics and that their elected representatives are more interested in scoring personal points than in working toward the betterment of their states and districts. In the last few decades special interest groups have taken on an entirely new role and lobbyists have become particularly vilified.

This disillusion toward politics is nothing new. Plato-the famous Greek philosopher-believed that all political systems were corrupt at their cores and that societies leaders should be chosen from an elite group of individuals who were began leadership training at birth. Aristotle argued that man is inherently political and that personal and political ethics are often the same thing.

One of the most famous political philosophers, Machiavelli advised that leaders of politics be brutal and manipulative and do whatever they could to retain their power. Machiavelli is studied today and his work is considered to be one of the leading authorities on how to behave in politics. Is it any wonder then, that the political systems of so many nations look corrupt?

The heart of politics is good: it is how laws are made and how individuals are judged by the societies that surround them. Without politics, nobody would know what was allowed and what was not allowed when they left the house. Unfortunately, many people view politics as a way to get ahead or to gain some sort of power over the people they live and work with. It is because of these "bad eggs" that politics has become regarded as an evil and ugly business.

The Politics Of Illegal Immigration

The problem of illegal immigration exists today in large measure because the last two Presidential administrations have not enforced the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which provided for penalties against companies that hire undocumented workers. In 1999, under the Clinton Administration, the U.S. government collected a meager $3.69 million from 890 companies in fines. In 2004, under George Bush, the amount collected in fines from companies hiring undocumented workers was zero.

It is estimated that, in 2004, three million illegal immigrants entered the United States. In addition, the border with Mexico has never been properly secured, with only 9500 border agents trying to police an eight thousand mile border until 2005.

These factors have lead to an illegal immigrant population that has grown by at least 37% since the last United States census in the year 2000. This increase in illegal immigration will provide a political firestorm in Washington D.C. in the next few years since illegal immigrants are still included in the congressional apportionment calculation for 2010.

Congressional apportionment is the distribution of the 435 seats in the United States House Of Representatives among the 50 states. The calculation is done every decade and is based on the census of a state's total population. The calculation includes citizens and non citizens including illegal aliens. The last calculation was done by Congress in the year 2000 and the next calculation of apportionment will be done in 2010. In addition this once in a decade population tally is used as the basis to distribute more than $200 billion in federal aid to the states each year.

When examining the last congressional apportionment in the year 2000, several interesting things become apparent. Seven million illegal aliens were counted in the 2000 United States census. In total the census counted 18.5 million non-citizens. These illegal aliens and non-citizens tend to live in several states in a concentrated fashion. Since apportionment considers non-citizens and illegal aliens in its formula, the result in 2000 was a redistribution of nine congressional seats. The result was that low immigration states that seem unaffected by immigration experienced a loss of their political influence. This loss of political influence occurred through the loss of congressional seats in the House of Representatives. The presence of non citizens in the census and apportionment calculations had some dramatic political consequences. Due to the fact that non-citizens were factored into the 2000 calculation, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi lost one seat each. The states of Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Utah each failed to gain a seat they should have had. The states with a high number of illegal aliens and non citizens gained the seats. California gained six seats and Florida, New York, and Texas gained one seat each.

Now consider the recent report by the University of Connecticut State Data Center . The report is an early projection on how the nation's growing population of illegal immigrants would amplify the movement of Congressional seats to the South and West when seats in the House of Representatives are next divided up in 2010. The Connecticut report predicts that "Arizona, Texas and Florida will all hold additional seats in Congress after the next census, in part because of their illegal immigrant populations. California and New Jersey would keep their current amount of seats in the House under the current system. Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Montana and Ohio will each have one fewer seat than they would otherwise have because they have relatively few undocumented immigrants. New York, which would lose two seats under the current system, would lose only one if illegal immigrants were excluded." Two of California's projected fifty three House seats would be the result of its undocumented population.

The report makes this conclusion, "Illegal immigration is concentrating the power of voters in states such as California, Texas and Arizona, which have more seats in Congress per legal resident than many states where the number of illegal immigrants is much smaller". Orlando Rodriguez, the demographer of the report adds: "If you look at it, if the undocumented population is included, then you get a real shift in seats from the Northeast to the South and the Southwest, and it's a disproportionate shift because the people who are included in the count, not all of them vote".

Future Presidential elections will also be impacted by the 2010 Congressional apportionment. Illegal immigration will not only redistribute seats in the House of Representatives, but will impact the Electoral College as well because it is based on the size of congressional delegations. This influence comes from a population of people who are not citizens and who are by law not allowed to vote. These people are residing in this country illegally.

However, they live here illegally because they are allowed to by local, state and federal governments. They are used in census figures by their state of residence which receive monetary benefits and more congressional power. They are exploited by the politician pandering for the Hispanic vote. They are exploited by their employers who pay them in many cases a low wage with poor working conditions. They are here because existing immigration laws were not enforced by the two previous administrations and by many state and local governments. They are here because the country has not secured its border in an age of terrorism.

Non-citizens and illegal aliens will be counted in the April 2010 United States census which will be the basis for congressional apportionment. The resulting movement of congressional seats will in effect dilute the principle that every citizen voter has an equal voice in this nation's political life. The result of the 2010 congressional apportionment will be yet another unfortunate example of the politics of illegal immigration.

James William Smith has worked in Senior management positions for some of the largest Financial Services firms in the United States for the last twenty five years. He has also provided business consulting support for insurance organizations and start up businesses. He has always been interested in writing and listening to different viewpoints on interesting topics.