Powers And Counter Powers

In politics and social science, power is the ability to influence the behavior of people. In order to live together members of a community accept rules, regulations, laws. This helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. Even when authority seems absolute, there are always counter-powers which question it, aim at limiting its excesses and resist it.What are comtemporary illust of the power struggles in society

I) Empowerment of citizens

II) the power of money

The term fifth power can be used to refer to the internet.we listn to recordig obout A huge Internet-related corporation , google , their briilliant strret view applic helps you, but we saw 30 countr complained invassion of privacy, shows a power abuse , also lawyers the us congress judged google to see if it had too much power as it would priviledge certain sites not oters thus hiding info but to them they are just trying to give the best results. SO googl appears the internet emperor , and theri main power is the data collection

We listned to a news report ,disccussing the expo rise of thno and unexp possib it bring.For exampl smartphones with built in cameras were made in mind by compan so we can take pictures of our families and daily life, but its also used for politic means  such as:police beat downs on citizens ; stop injustices , record the events as the went down like in london with the riots and bombings.

Wiki leaks :WikiLeaks is an international, online, non-profit organisation which publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources.Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch.Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director.Since November 2010, Assange has been subject to a European Arrest Warrant in response to a Swedish police request for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation. In June 2012, following final dismissal by the Supreme Court of the UK of his appeal against enforcement of the European Arrest Warrant, Assange has failed to surrender to his bail, and has been treated by the UK authorities as having fled. Since 19 June 2012, he has been living in a room within the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has since been granted diplomatic asylum.

Promotes transparency the right to know unmask secrets

We discussedabuot occupy waallstret

Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, . Local groups often have variou goals, but among the movement's prime concerns is the belief that large corporations and the global financial system control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy and is unstable.We saw a satire cartoon where a cop arrest a pacific demonstratr in front of waallstr and robbers in the background just watch shows the irony unfair imbalnce of power

We are the 99% is a political slogan widely used by the Occupy movement. It is a variation on the phrase "We The 99%" from an August 2011 flyer for the NYC General Assembly.The phrase indirectly refers to the concentration of income and wealth among the top earning 1%,

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