20 Feet Tall opens the show with a declaration of power, slowed so Badu can savour the words on her lips.
Rageh Badi, a spokeman for the overthrown Hadi government, predicted that the Houthis' formal declaration of power "will take Yemen to a dangerous slope, including a civil war".
This self-declaration of power discredited Rajoelina in the eyes of many of the supporters who had rallied around his original pro-democracy message, and the number of attendees at subsequent rallies declined, averaging around 3,000 to 5,000 participants.
The blog entries themselves are a mixture of chatty accounts of Mills's days in Hawaii, stories of her athletic and pole-dancing feats, descriptions of fun evenings with friends, and declarations of girl power (she refers to herself throughout as a "world-traveling, pole-dancing superhero").
It was Jesus' declaration of divine power contrasted to human frailty.
In a sense the identity museum is a morality tale about success in the cooled-off melting-pot of contemporary democracy; it is a declaration of political power to outsiders, an affirmation of shared experience to cohorts.
She goes further still, voicing the ultimate taboo: that we revel in the exciting end-times madness of climate change, and even perhaps wrecked the world as a perverse declaration of our power over it.
There are no endless wars; but there are declarations of the extension of power by a state that believes it cannot be challenged.
Yet Michael is the worst offender; he hates paperwork and is constantly distracting his employees while supposedly motivating them — the man is a karaoke machine of samplings from leadership manuals, and his emotional declarations sound like "The 48 Laws of Power".
If we start making the formal declarations to these guys, the balance of power can shift away from money based system.
