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[edit] Political Authority

I notice political authority redirects here - is this actually the same thing as political power?134.219.158.221 (talk) 20:22, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] POWER ABUSE

This is a comment contained in the following site: http://noparadoxes.tripod.com:

ATTENTION PLEASE! WORLD DENUNCIATION! This site started in May of 2006, and as normal, few days after its web publication, it appead in the first four to ten Google and Yahoo results when simple search keywords like "evaporation paradox", "there are no paradoxes", "evaporation", etc., were used. Since then this site showed a very interesting amount of visits daily. However, in October of 2006 surprisingly I discovered a situation that now is known to happen on the internet which probably is unaware by most of the world. Such fact clearly shows some kind of behaviour and the true intentions of the owners of at least these two famous search engines: truculent and dictatorial power abuse! Their dishonest attitudes will be known by the world and the people will at least change the former image on Google and Yahoo. Only few days after the paragraph commenting on the erroneous definitions of concepts adopted by the AMS-American Meteorological Society was included in the document below, the Google and Yahoo simply eliminated completely and dishonestly my site from their results. Now, even using lots and lots of different keywords, this site does not appear in any of the Google and Yahoo search results. The proof of this truculent elimination can be obtained simply by putting this own site address http://noparadoxes.tripod.com as the keyword for Google and Yahoo and we can see that the site link or address does not appear. These are anti-democratic attitudes that do not match with the scopes for the internet, and the world must be aware about this. These tyrannical Google and fhklfjhkfjkhjfkjhkfjbkjdfYahoo attitudes are still more repudiated because this is a scientific site for the complete benefit of the science and of the humankind and the owners of the Google and Yahoo understands nothing about this science and thus they are actuating against all the science and the humankind. I also wrote a letter to the directors of the AMS asking them whether they agree with such anti-democratic and anti-scientific actions by the Google and Yahoo and no reply was received. I reaffirm that this space is completely free for those who may not agree with my scientific statements, but till to date no comment was received. Google and Yahoo are making censorship on the internet, and worst, a private scientific censorship on matters which they are unaware. Certainly, they did this under request from some empirical scientists and corresponding organizations that show not to have scientific arguments to try to disprove honestly and transparently what I affirm scientifically. I can add that my document below represents "inconvenient scientific truths". THE WORLD POPULATION AS WELL AS LEGISLATORS MUST TAKE A POSITION ON THIS TOTALITARIAN ATTITUDE, OTHERWISE ALL OF YOU CAN IMAGINE IN WHAT WILL BE TRANSFORMED THE INTERNET WORLD.

I have some news. Today is 27 December 2006 and I have just discovered that now the link for this site appears only in the Google results when its own address is used as the keyword. However, the link to this site for other keywords as mentioned above continues not appearing in the search results. Thus, the situation continues the same as dennounced above because nobody knows an address which is being searched.

Yup - The question at hand is, if you are abusing your right to contribute to Wikipedia. If you have an issue, take it up someplace else. Yotwen 23:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Definition

Umm, this article is missing something. What IS political power???

-G

--- The question of power has received rather thorough theoretical treatment within political science, and from different perspectives within it such as in international relations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_in_international_relations

it seems like this article should include this, or set to distinguish itself from this.

ON POWER PERSONIFIED:

There is a delicious portrait of the very inner workings of power:

It is of Russian President Vladimir Putin and champion Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Alexander Karelin.

Karelin towers over Putin in a protective posture while Putin shows a hovering glee.

The "pinnicle" of society "needs" the more "base" elements for its existence.

Find it at: [1]

--Scroll1 22:35, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

What IS political power???

It is a combination of an ability to get people to vest you with authority, ie, that they are willing to obey you, combined with the information required to use that authority to get things you want done.

Initially a dictator can get things done, because the fear that comes later, has not yet paralysed information channels required to be able to use immense power with knowledge. As fear grows, so information channels fail, leaving dictators in a fantasy world which unhelpfully fails to match reality. At this stage people tell a dictator what he or she wants to hear, not what they need to know. This is why political power is fleeting for dictatorships and most dictatorships fail soon after the first dictator departs.

Democracy has a clever trick of removing authority when politicians lose the plot with information. This is a neat check, the balance is that a democratic assembly is a superb system of providing information the rulers need. If the rulers follow the information a democratic assembly provides they will not only have great political power, but will keep their jobs. This is the balance.

Informaton + Authority permits Political Power. It's as simple as that.

Ths article could use some actual political philosophy and history instead of random ideas of what someone thinks political power is. Just for starters political power can never come from a single person. You must separate strength from power. For more information on these concepts and for clearer definitions read through Hannah Arendt's work or find someone to write this article that has read more of her work than I. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.226.236.56 (talk) 05:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Reasons why African Coutries degenerate into political dictatorship immediately afetr independent. ==

1. External influene from other countries. - Immediately after independent, the colonialist did not fully withdraw from the African countries, they still possesed the largest fertile land, owned large bukldings. Their influence can still be felt. Take for example South Africa where major decesions can not be done without consulting the elite. The plundering of resources in west african states where the same are exported to Countroies outside Africa, the same is exchaged with guns, bullets. 2. Protection of their wealth. the dictators in Africa has ammased so much wealth, they are so rich that they feel if anonther person comes into power, his wealth will be under threat. so they hold on to power. Mobutu of Zaire is an example, the former dictaor, since deceased was so rich that he could not imagine his wealth being taken away under his watch. 4. Protection of their families. Most African countries degenerate into autocratic regimes as a way of protecting themselves and their families, they belief that if another president comes into power, his misdeeds will be unravelled, and the expresident can be put on trial together with their families. 6. Fear of arrest by International courts, The current example is the Presdent of Sudan, as per now it will be difficult to convince such a person to surrrender power to another person as he will feel insecure. 5. Protection of terorists. In somalia for example, the govermanet is in total collapse since the fall of their president. there has been entrants of runaway criminals such as alquaeda which has set base there. they fear that if a new centralised goverment is installed, they will be exposed. 7. Reward of cronies. In zibabwe, the surporters of the presidents party Zanu PF has been invading white owned farms under the oresidents watch. neither the police nor the army has done anything to stop it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.201.151.69 (talk) 09:28, 29 March 2009 (UTC)