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Interpretation – federal economic engagement is government-to-government
It’s is exclusive
Updegrave 91 (W.C., “Explanation of ZIP Code Address Purpose”, 8-19, http://www.supremelaw.org/ref/zipcode/updegrav.htm)
More specifically, looking at the map on page 11 of the National ZIP Code
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Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, making the explanatory statement literally correct. 

This means only direct aid and trade agreements – they’re third-party engagement
Daga 13 (Sergio Daga, director of research at Politicas Publicas para la Libertad, Bolivia, visiting senior policy analyst, Heritage Foundation, M.A. Economics, University of Chile, B.A. Economics, Catholic University of Bolivia, also trained at Libertad y Desarrollo, Chile, and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, United States, “Economics of the 2013-2014 Debate Topic: U.S. Economic Engagement Toward Cuba, Mexico or Venezuela,” National Center for Policy Analysis, Debate Backgrounder No. 7, 5-15-2013, http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Message_to_Debaters_6-7-13.pdf)
Economics is the branch of human knowledge concerned with the ¶ satisfaction of human wants
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issues are more important with ¶ respect to some countries than to others.

Prefer it –
First, limits – any regulation, product, or private action is justified – infinite unpredictable AFFs
Second, ground – means-focus is key to stable disad and counterplan prep – they create a race to shallow, unpredictable single-sector strategies

FW

Rules are key to harness the educational value of intellectual contests – this accesses the educational value of fun
Prensky, 01 – Internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning, Founder, CEO and Creative Director of games2train.com, former vice president at the global financial firm Bankers Trust
(Marc, “Fun, Play, and Games: What Makes Games Engaging,” 2001, www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky20-20Digital20Game-Based20Learning-Ch5.pdf)

So fun — in the sense of enjoyment and pleasure — puts us in a relaxed, receptive frame of mind for learning. Play, in addition to providing pleasure, increases our involvement, which also helps us learn.
Both “fun” and “play” however, have the disadvantage of being somewhat abstract, unstructured, and hard-to-define concepts. But there exists a more formal and structured way to harness (and unleash) all the power of fun and play in the learning process — the powerful institution of games. Before we look specifically at how we can combine games with learning, let us examine games themselves in some detail.
Like fun and play, game is a word of many meanings and implications. How can we define a game? Is there any useful distinction between fun, play and games? What makes games engaging? How do we design them?
Games are a subset of both play and fun. In programming jargon they are a “child”, inheriting all the characteristics of the “parents.” They therefore carry both the good and the bad of both terms. Games, as we will see, also have some special qualities, which make them particularly appropriate and well suited for learning.
So what is a game?
Like play, game, has a wide variety of meanings, some positive,
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around the definition of games involving rules, contest, rivalry and struggle.
What Makes a Game a Game? Six Structural Factors
The Encyclopedia Britannica provides the following diagram of the relation between play and games: 35
PLAY spontaneous play organized play ( AMES)
noncompetitive games competitive games (CONTESTS)
intellectual contests physical contests (SPORTS)
(repreinted with permission from Britanica.com © 1999-2000 Encyclopedia Britannica Inc.)
Our goal here is to understand why games engage us, drawing us in often in spite of ourselves. This powerful force stems first from the fact that they are a form of fun and play, and second from what I call the six key structural elements of games:

1. Rules
   2. Goals and Objectives
   3. Outcomes and Feedback
   4. Conflict/Competition/Challenge/Opposition
   5. Interaction, and
   6. Representation or Story.
   There are thousands, perhaps millions of different games, but all contain most, if not all, these powerful factors. Those that don’t contain all the factors are still classified as games by many, but can also belong to other subclasses described below. In addition to these structural factors, there are also important design elements that add to engagement and distinguish a really good game from a poor or mediocre one.
   Let us discuss these six factors in detail and show how and why they lead to such strong engagement.
   Rules are what differentiate games from other kinds of play. Probably the most basic
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   , it was still a race — but no longer the same game.
   While even small children understand some game rules (“that’s not fair”), rules become
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   2 point conversion, the instant replay — over whether to change them.

Fun debate is a prerequisite to education and retention
Prensky, 01 – Internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning, Founder, CEO and Creative Director of games2train.com, former vice president at the global financial firm Bankers Trust
(Marc, “Fun, Play, and Games: What Makes Games Engaging,” 2001, www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky20-20Digital20Game-Based20Learning-Ch5.pdf)

Fun and Learning
People with the notion that learning cannot and should not be fun are clearly in an archaic mode.
-Mark Bieler, former head of HR, Bankers Trust Company
So what is the relationship between fun and learning? Does having fun help or hurt? Let us look at what some researchers have to say on the subject:
“Enjoyment and fun as part of the learning process are important when learning new tools since the learner is relaxed and motivated and therefore more willing to learn.”6 "The role that fun plays with regard to intrinsic motivation in education is twofold. First, intrinsic motivation promotes the desire for recurrence of the experience… Secondly, fun can motivate learners to engage themselves in activities with which they have little or no previous experience." 7
"In simple terms a brain enjoying itself is functioning more efficiently." 8
"When we enjoy learning, we learn better" 9
Fun has also been shown by Datillo and Kleiber, 1993; Hastie, 1994; Middleton, Littlefield and Lehrer, 1992, to increase motivation for learners. 10
It appears then that the principal roles of fun in the learning process are to create relaxation and motivation. Relaxation enables a learner to take things in more easily, and motivation enables them to put forth effort without resentment.

Letting other concerns trump rules of the game guts its effectiveness and participation
Villa 96—Dana Villa Political Theory @ UC Santa Barbara Arendt and Heidegger: the Fate of the Political p. 37

If political action is to be valued for its own sake, then the content
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good game, like genuine politics, is played for its own sake.

Competitive debate is a dialogue between two teams.   Their willful refusal to defend the resolution is an act to exclude the negative from meaningful participation in the dialogue.  Placing a priority on a balanced topic exists to provide a voice for both sides.
Galloway, 7 –professor of communication at Samford University (Ryan, “DINNER AND CONVERSATION AT THE ARGUMENTATIVE TABLE: RECONCEPTUALIZING DEBATE AS AN ARGUMENTATIVE DIALOGUE”, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28 (2007), ebsco)

Debate as a dialogue sets an argumentative table, where all parties receive a relatively
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taking the relative ground of each topic as its central point of departure.
Setting the affirmative reciprocally sets the negative. The negative crafts approaches to the topic consistent with affirmative demands. The negative crafts disadvantages, counter-plans, and critical arguments premised on the arguments that the topic allows for the affirmative team. According to fairness norms, each side sits at a relatively balanced argumentative table.
When one side takes more than its share, competitive equity suffers. However,
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upon months of preparation, research, and critical thinking not be silenced.
Affirmative cases that suspend basic fairness norms operate to exclude particular negative strategies. Unprepared, one side comes to the argumentative table unable to meaningfully participate in a dialogue. They are unable to “understand what ‘went on…’” and are left to the whims of time and power (Farrell, 1985, p. 114). Hugh Duncan furthers this line of reasoning:
Opponents not only tolerate but honor and respect each other because in doing so they
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and informal institutions (Duncan, 1993, p. 196-197).
Debate compensates for the exigencies of the world by offering a framework that maintains equality for the sake of the conversation (Farrell, 1985, p. 114).
For example, an affirmative case on the 2007-2008 college topic might defend
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substitutes for topical action do not accrue the dialogical benefits of topical advocacy.

It’s a voting issue and outweighs their offense – their attempt to exclude the negative obliterates the pedagogical benefits of in-round dialogue.  Fairness norms are vital because they allow both teams to be heard in a meaningful way.  Debate as dialogue is vital to refine and develop positions, test ideas and is a prerequisite to meaningful political participation
Galloway, 7 –professor of communication at Samford University (Ryan, “DINNER AND CONVERSATION AT THE ARGUMENTATIVE TABLE: RECONCEPTUALIZING DEBATE AS AN ARGUMENTATIVE DIALOGUE”, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28 (2007), ebsco)

A second reason to reject the topic has to do with its exclusivity. Many
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eviscerated entirely. The affirmative case is obliged to invite a negative response.
In addition, even when the negative strategy is not entirely excluded, any strategy
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“germ of a response” (Bakhtin, 1990) is stunted.
While affirmative teams often accuse the negative of using a juridical rule to exclude them
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from, a ground by which to meaningfully contribute to an ongoing conversation.
Conversely, in a dialogical exchange, debaters come to realize the positions other than
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possible array of “counterwords,” enhancing the pedagogical process produced by debate.
Additionally, debate benefits activism by exposing the participants to a wide range of points of view on topics of public importance. A debater starting their career in the fall of 2005 would have debated about China, landmark Supreme Court decisions, Middle East policy, and agricultural policy. It is unsurprising that many debaters contend that debate is one of the most educationally valuable experiences of their lives.
Thus, the unique distinctions between debate and public speaking allow debaters the opportunity to
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ability to craft a nuanced answer to the question posed by the resolution.

People will ignore the 1AC because you don’t give the other side a fair chance to respond
Michael Underwood, summarizing Carl Hovland, communication at Yale University, 2000 (Psychology of Communication, www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/psy/hovland3.html) 

Whether or not you should include arguments for and against your case depends very much
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-sided argument tending to be more persuasive with a more intelligent audience. 

Christopher C. Joyner is a Professor of International Law in the Government Department at Georgetown University, Spring, 1999 5 ILSA J Int'l and Comp L 377

Use of the debate can be an effective pedagogical tool for education in the social
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the real world of policy analysis, political critique, and legal defense.

K
Their demand for the ballot in response to descriptions of suffering is an attempt to commodify the other --- their advocacy may sound empathetic but it fails as a political strategy by comforting the Western observer and reinforcing the status quo.
Bystrom, 12 - Kerry L. is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Research Program on Humanitarianism at the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, "Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms (review)." Human Rights Quarterly 34.4 (2012): 1214-1217. Project MUSE)A-Berg
*gender modified
Over the past decade, a growing body of work has brought humanities perspectives to
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deserves this time, thought, and celebration. End Page 1217 

This use of the other as a means for a ballot simply reduces populations to utility --- the impact is genocide.
Chow, ‘6 - Professor Comparative Lit at Brown, (Rey, “The Age of the World Target” p 40-42)a-berg

Often under the modest and apparently innocuous agendas of fact gathering and documentation,
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literature into a full-scale preoccupation with identity and its construction."57

The alternative is to vote neg --- your role as a judge is to interrogate how we should deal with our privileged positions which allow us to speak in the first place.
Chow, ’93 - Professor Comparative Lit at Brown, (Rey, “Writing Diaspora” p 15-17 google books)a-berg

While the struggle for hegemony remains necessary for many reasons-especially in cases where
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off field, in the military no less than in the academic sense?
Neolib good
Globalization spurred democracy in Latin America
Haslam 12 – School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa (Paul Alexander Haslam, “Globalization in Latin America and Its Critics” International Studies Association, Volume 14, Issue 2, June 19 2012, Wiley Online Library) MR
Another important question is what effect globalization has had on the practice of democracy in
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that shape the ability to reform pension schemes and welfare states more generally.



Neoliberalism key to widespread and effective disease treatment – regulations inhibit companies
Ralston, 3 executive director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (Richard E. Ralston “Free Markets: The Key to New Drugs at a Reasonable Price” 2003http:www.freedomfromfda.org/freemarketskey.html) NG
¶ Government control of prescriptions drugs and their prices would blow up the pipeline of
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Leave my drugs—which means those who produce them—alone!
Disease causes nuclear war and terrorism – causes extinction
Evans 10 (Jane Evans Department of Military Strategic Studies, writing for global security studies “Pandemics and National Security”http:globalsecuritystudies.com/Evans20PANDEMICS.pdf)
Recent developments in medicine, hygiene, and public health have virtually eliminated widespread disease
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terrorism, regional instability, and often necessitate foreign aid and humanitarian assistance.

Trade liberalization is key to Latin American growth and stability
Gwartney* and Vasquez 1 – *co-author of Economic Freedom of the World, director of the Project on Global Economic Liberty (James D. Gwartney and Ian Vásquez, “Why Latin America Needs a Free-Trade Zone” National Post, April 18 2001, http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-latin-america-needs-freetrade-zone?print) MR
At the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, the Hemisphere’s leaders may at
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might well be the primary benefit derived from free trade in the Americas.
Economic freedom is a prerequisite to environmental protection, endorsing the market allows profit motive to drive environmentally sound choices
Anderson 2008 - Professor emeritus of economics, Montana State University. Executive Director, Property and Environment Research Center. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an adjunct professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, the University of Basel, and Cornell University Law School. PhD in economics, U Washington (Terry, “Plucking a few facts out of the bin of recycled slogans,” 15 October 2008, http://www.perc.org/articles/article1118.php)//Modermatt
The main reason for the change is simple: once people have more food,
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private incentives that power America’s economy and harness them to the environmental bandwagon.
Extinction
Dernbach 98, Associate Professor of Law at Widener University, ’98 (John, Fall, “Sustainable Development as a Framework for National Governance” Case Western University Law Review, Vol 49 p 16, lexis)
The global scale and severity of environmental degradation and poverty are unprecedented in human history
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in a time of substantial international travel and commerce is but one example.


Not the root cause of ethnic conflicts or intolerance
Prasch 12 – Department of Economics, Middlebury College (Robert E. Prasch, “Neoliberalism and Ethnic Conflict” Review of Radical Political Economics, 2012, Sage Publications) MR
The question alluded to, but not answered, in the previous paragraph is paramount
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experiencing, including those that have so greatly transformed Gujarat (Nussbaum 2007).
Globalization and open trade solve failed states
Gurr 2k – Professor of Government and Polics, Ted Robert Gurr et al, Director, Minorities at Risk Project; Distinguished University Professor, Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, 9-30-2000, (State Failure Task Force Report: Phase III Findings, http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/stfail/SFTF20Phase20III20Report20Final.pdf)
Assessing the Impact of Trade Openness The Task Force has examined a wide range of
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to faster growth and more democracy, both of which encourage political stability.

Tournament: NDCA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington | Judge:
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T-Trade
A. Interpretation - Economic engagement is long-term strategy for promoting structural linkage between two economies
Mastanduno, 1 – professor of Government at Dartmouth College (Michael, “Economic Engagement Strategies: Theory and Practice” http://web.archive.org/web/20120906033646/http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/bpollins/book/Mastanduno.pdf

The basic causal logic of economic engagement, and the emphasis on domestic politics,
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chain runs from economic interdependence through domestic political change to foreign policy accommodation.

B. Violation – the plan is an economic inducement since it only focuses on one short-term infrastructure policy – engagement requires trade promotion
Celik, 11 – master’s student at Uppsala University (Department of Peace and Conflict Research) (Arda, Economic Sanctions and Engagement Policies http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/175204/economic-sanctions-and-engagement-policies)

Literature of liberal school points out that economic engagement policies are significantly effective tools for
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believes in that economic linkages have political transformation potential.(Kroll,1993)

PTX iran

A nuclear deal with Iran is likely – Obama is conserving his PC to push it through Congress
Klein 4-10 (Joe Klein, Time, “Why Obama Hit Pause,” 4-10-2014, time.com/57181/obama-hits-pause-on-iran/)
Why hasn’t Kerry published a framework for the talks as promised? In my interviews
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solid, subtle and dependable policy implementers than they have in the past.

New agenda items overstretch PC and trigger cascading prolif and war with Iran
Sabet 9-13 (Farzan Sabet, co-founder and editing manager of IranPolitik.com, doctoral student in International History and M.A. International History and Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva, focused on international relations, international trade law, and Iranian domestic politics and foreign policy, “4: Iran: Resolving the Nuclear Crisis,” Journal of Public and International Affairs, September 2013, p.74-77, http://www.princeton.edu/jpia/past-issues-1/2013/JPIA-2013-Final.pdf)
American President Barack Obama currently has an unprecedented opportunity to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis
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last forever. Part three lays out the four policy proposals in detail.

War escalates, collapses the global economy and causes extinction
Avery 11-6 (John Scales Avery, Lektor Emeritus, Associate Professor, at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, “An Attack On Iran Could Escalate Into Global Nuclear War,” 11-6-2013, http://www.countercurrents.org/avery061113.htm)
Despite the willingness of Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani to make all reasonable concessions
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and future of all the peoples of the world, US citizens included.

SSS CP
Top-Level
1nc – cp
CP Text: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its short sea shipping capability for NAFTA trade opportunities towards Mexico
SSS leads to new job growth
MARAD ‘11 U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration, America’s Marine Highway Report to Congress, Prepared in Consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency, April 2011, p. 12-13
Expanded use of Marine Highway services has the potential to generate orders for new vessels
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growth are the chief sources of new demand for workers throughout the economy.
Solves trade- SSS can solve congestion and leads to reliable transfer of cargo
MARAD ‘11 U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration, America’s Marine Highway Report to Congress, Prepared in Consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency, April 2011, p. 17
America’s Marine Highway can play a role in alleviating this congestion on some of our
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and to facilitate the transition to greater use of this underutilized national asset.

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Movements against neoliberalism are growing in Latin America and spill over -- the plans reifies neoliberalism --- ethics require we de-link to preserve the environment and indigenous culture.
Harris 8 (Richard L Harris: Professor of Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay; Managing Editor of the Journal of Developing Societies (SAGE India); and Coordi­ nating Editor of Latin American Perspectives (SAGE USA). “Latin America’s Response to Neoliberalism and Globalization,” http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3506_2.pdf)
The economic, political and social development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries is
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model of uneven and inequitable development that has pillaged most of the region. 

Environment collapse causes extinction – tipping points are coming
Foster et al., Oregon sociology professor, 2010
(John, The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, pg 14-8, ldg)
It is common today to see this ecological rift simply in terms of climate change
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to nature arising from an alienated system of capital accumulation without end.' 

Vote Neg to reject the Aff’s neoliberal economic engagement in favor of a commons-based approach. That solves and creates space to challenge neoliberalism
De Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2003
(Massimo, “Reflections on alternatives, commons and communities”, Winter, http://www.commoner.org.uk/deangelis06.pdf, DOA: 7-2-12, ldg)
This movement has posed the question of a plurality of “alternatives” to the
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, at the same time building and strengthening communities through the social fields. 

Manufacturing

Mexican manufacturing dominance inevitable
Coy, 13 (Peter Coy, 6/27/13, “Four Reasons Mexico Is Becoming a Global Manufacturing Power”, http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/130192-four-reasons-mexico-is-becoming-a-global-manufacturing-power)//EM
Mexico is beginning to beat China as a manufacturing base for many companies despite its
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, ranging from components makers to assemblers of both small and large appliances.

Too many alt causes for them to solve
Jasinowski 4-22-2013 (Jerry Jasinowshi, Former President of the National Association of Manufacturers, “A Real Manufacturing Resurgence.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-jasinowski/manufacturing-comeback_b_3131062.html )NR

There are contradictory analyses in the media about a resurgence of manufacturing - some praising
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need to make it happen. We should read it and heed it.

Alt cause to aerospace 

Blakey 12 Marion, Aerospace Industries Association president, “Saving The Defense Industrial Base,” Breaking Defense, 12/27/12, http://breakingdefense.com/2012/12/27/saving-the-defense-industrial-base/

If 9/11 brought to an abrupt end Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History
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economy. We have a real concern that once pink slips come to valuable

Aerospace industry growing now
Stancavage 7/17 7/17/13, John Stancavage is a business columnist for TulsaWorld News, “Aviation and aerospace industries on the upswing” http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/John_Stancavage_Aviation_and_aerospace_industries_on/20130717_46_E1_WhenDa753213
When Daniel Meier walks through Tulsa International Airport these days, he sees something that's
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Airlines," said Hutchings, who handles corporate and government relations in Tulsa.

Chinese military modernization now
Bloomberg, 13 (Bloomberg, 3/5/13, “China Boosts Defense Spending as Military Modernizes Arsenal”, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2013-03-05/china-boosts-defense-spending-as-military-modernizes-its-arsenal.html)//EM
China will boost defense spending 10.7 percent this year as the government modernizes
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vegetables into “various pickles and appetizers” to cut down on waste.

No war or escalation- nuclear primacy prevents
Ross ‘5 (Robert S., Staff Writer for the National Interest, Fall, Assessing the China Threat. The National Interest. Lexis)
At the strategic level, after decades of research and testing, China is preparing
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. nuclear capabilities ever provided for our European allies during the Cold War.

Chinese IPR protections increasing
Xinhua, 13 (Xinhua, 4/19/13, “China's IPR protection continues to improve: official”, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-04/19/c_132323921.htm)//EM
BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) -- China has consistently improved its laws and
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effective registered trademarks by the end of last year, according to Tian.

Case
Warming
Global warming is not real or anthropogenic- and if it was it would be good for the environment- all of your studies are flawed
Deming 11 –geophysicist and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma (David, “Why I deny Global Warming”, 10/19/11; http://www.lewrockwell.com/2011/10/david-deming/why-i-deny-global-warming/)//Beddow
I’m a denier for several reasons. There is no substantive evidence that the planet
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a scientist, and therefore I must happily confess to being a denier. 

Solvency
NadBank is fine now- just gave out funds for water projects in Santiago
Hendricks, 7/5/13 July 5th- writer for a business website (My USA), business MBA (David, “NADBank approves Nuevo León grant”, 7/5/13, http://www.mysanantonio.com/ business/local/article/NADBank-approves-Nuevo-Le-n-grant-4648730.php)
The San Antonio-based North American Development Bank is providing a $333,
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small environmental projects in communities with limited or no capacity to incur debt.
Expanding the NADBank mandate to include transportation infrastructure crushes environment-based projects – overstretches the institution
George Kourous (directs the IRC's BIOC program, Writer, Editor and Senior Program Associate at International Relations Center (IRC)) October 2000 “The Great NADBank Debate” ProQuest
 The charter that created BECC and NADBank requires the institutions to support projects that
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many of whom still lack basic services like running water and sewage disposal.
NADBank fails – cost inefficiencies and high interest rates
Vanderpool 6 (Tim Vanderpool, “NADBank Blues: Will Border Cleanup Efforts Be Abandoned,” 04/13/2006, http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/nadbank-blues/Content?oid=1083801, AC)
Still, the NADBank has been no stranger to criticism. Environmentalists condemn its secretive
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of the bank and what its future may be. Among options being considered
 was possible closure of the bank."¶ Still, Treasury Department officials have been more honest about their ongoing complaints. "Our concern is with the functioning of the bank," says McLaughlin. "We think the administrative costs are pretty high.”

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Neoliberalism is collapsing in Latin America
Buono 10 Professor of Sociology, Author 10 books regarding Latin America, “Latin America and the Collapsing Ideological Supports of Neoliberalism”, 9-20, http://crs.sagepub.com/content/37/1/9, 6-25-2013, JLLS

Fast forwarding to 21st century sociological terminology, this involves doing ‘public sociology’ and
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the neoliberal order is somehow ‘natural’ or ‘inevitable’ begins to collapse.

The  NEOLIBERAL system is unsustainable – the alt is try or die
Shearman, Adelaide University emeritus medicine professor, 2007
(David, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy, pg 4-6)

This impending crisis is caused by the accelerating damage to the natural environment on which
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will not be met and human well-being will be seriously affected.

Root cause of global warming is neoliberal drive for profit-try or die for reorganizing social relations
Abramsky, former Institute of Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society fellow, 2010
(Kolya, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World, pg 7-9)

though undoubtedly crucial to any long term solution, cannot, on their own,
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and creativity of grassroots social mobilization. 

Latin America is moving away from neoliberal structures of governance but the alt is key
Cahill 9 (Damien, lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney, Australia, “The End of Neoliberalism?”, http://www.zcommunications.org/the-end-of-neoliberalism-by-damien-cahill, ZBurdette)

This is not to suggest that a retreat from neoliberalism is impossible. The example
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to impose democratic and socially protective alternatives upon both capital and the state.

THEY SAID NO ROOT CAUSE BUT

Neolbieralism produces crises, securitizes them and militarily lashes out against them-this cycle triggers every impact and terminates in extinction.
Mosaddeq, Sussex University IR professor, 2010
(Nafeez, “Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises”, 7-20, http://yalejournal.org/2010/07/globalizing-insecurity-the-convergence-of-interdependent-ecological-energy-and-economic-crises/, DOA: 6-29-12)

The logic of ‘growth’ – as currently defined – is driving the depletion of
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preventively by re-thinking the efficacy of our current way of life. 

It’s the root cause of environmental destruction
Richard A. Smith 7, Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research and Development, UK; PhD in History from UCLA, June 2007, “The Eco-suicidal Economics of Adam Smith,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 22-43
In the midst of the record-breaking heat wave in the summer of 2003
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"endless technical adjustments;" thus no further theoretical thought is required."27

goklany indict

Goklany’s wrong, oversimplified, and neolib destroys all the reasons the status quo is improving
James Surowiecki 7, journalist and financial writer for The New Yorker, 7/18/7, “The Myth of Inevitable Progress,” http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/the_myth_of_inevitable_progres.html
"Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better
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of others getting richer while they stay the same or actually get poorer.

AND they read pinker saying that the world is getting better but:

Pinker’s analysis is useless- entirely ignores role of population growth, which accounts for all of the change he cites
Flynn, Financial times, 2011
(Julian, “Angel thesis hangs on overpopulation”, 12-7, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/30bf527c-1cfb-11e1-a134-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1zgRgD4Yc, DOA: 7-4-12, ldg)

Sir, Gideon Rachman’s article “The long shadow of the 1930s” (Comment
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) which is an extremely serious sword of Damocles hanging over our planet. 

Pinker ignored state sponsored violence and genocide
Douthat, former Atlantic senior editor, 2011
(Ross, “Steven Pinker’s History of Violence”, 10-17, http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/steven-pinkers-history-of-violence/, DOA: 7-4-12, ldg)

 1) Pinker links the decline in violence to the development of the modern
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the interests of the peoples who were “civilized” out of existence. 

Neolib necessitates systems that are catastrophic for the environment.
Mander, International Forum on Globalizaton, and Retallack, The Ecologist 2002
(Jerry and Simon “Intrinsic Environmental Consequences of Trade-Related Transport,”. Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible, The International Forum on Globalization, pg 26-7, ldg)
The central feature of an export-oriented production model is that it dramatically increases
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on these kinds of environmental problems. They are intrinsic to the model.

Only ALT makes it sustainable
Zehner, visting scholar at University California Berkley, 2012
(Ozzie Green Illusions, pg 175, ldg) 

There's another problem. Even though energy consumers might not spend their efficiency savings to
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to move from a consumption-based economy to one grounded in sufficiency.
3. Perm just re-brands dissent into a new enclosure-creates cooption.
Neubauer 12 (Robert J, is a Phd Student at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver “Dialogue, Monologue, or Something in Between? Neoliberal Think Tanks in the Americas,” http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/viewfile/1481/789)
As Mato (1997, 2003, 2005, 2008) notes, transnational networks
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markets “with a crowbar, if necessary” (Uchitelle, 1990).

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Movements against neoliberalism are growing in Latin America and spill over -- the plans reifies neoliberalism --- ethics require we de-link to preserve the environment and indigenous culture.
Harris 8 (Richard L Harris: Professor of Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay; Managing Editor of the Journal of Developing Societies (SAGE India); and Coordi­ nating Editor of Latin American Perspectives (SAGE USA). “Latin America’s Response to Neoliberalism and Globalization,” http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3506_2.pdf)
The economic, political and social development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries is
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model of uneven and inequitable development that has pillaged most of the region. 

Environment collapse causes extinction – tipping points are coming
Foster et al., Oregon sociology professor, 2010
(John, The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, pg 14-8, ldg)
It is common today to see this ecological rift simply in terms of climate change
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to nature arising from an alienated system of capital accumulation without end.' 

Vote Neg to reject the Aff’s neoliberal economic engagement in favor of a commons-based approach. That solves and creates space to challenge neoliberalism
De Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2003
(Massimo, “Reflections on alternatives, commons and communities”, Winter, http://www.commoner.org.uk/deangelis06.pdf, DOA: 7-2-12, ldg)
This movement has posed the question of a plurality of “alternatives” to the
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, at the same time building and strengthening communities through the social fields. 

1nc immigration

Immigration reform is top of the docket and passage is likely but uncertain – Obama must avoid perception of over-reach
Talev and Dorning 10-16 (Margaret Talev and Mike Dorning, Bloomberg Businessweek, “Obama’s Debt Fight Win Won’t Secure Agenda Success,” 10-16-2013, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-16/obama-s-win-in-debt-fight-won-t-secure-success-for-future-agenda)
President Barack Obama’s victory in the fiscal standoff with Republicans won’t guarantee success in future
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everybody has a fair amount of egg on their face,” he said. 

Narrowing the agenda and focusing PC on immigration is key
Pickler 10-17 (Nedra Pickler, Associated Press, “Obama: Focus on budget, immigration, farm bill,” 10-17-2013, http://portal.truvista.net/news/read/category/political/article/ap-obama_focus_on_budget_immigration_farm_b-ap)
The government shutdown behind him, President Barack Obama focused Thursday on a new,
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.S. illegally, but most House Republicans have rejected the approach.

 plan saps PC 

Failure confirms global fears of terminal political dysfunction – collapses U.S. influence and turns their perception advantages
Hammond 10-17 (Andrew Hammond, Prospect Magazine, “Debt debacle sends global shockwaves,” 10-17-2013, http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/prospector/debt-debacle-sends-global-shockwaves/#.UmDegDfD_ZY)
At the eleventh hour, Congress has agreed a short-term deal to raise
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a responsible international power, but could potentially send it into freefall again.

Independently triggers global economic collapse
Williams 10-13 (Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, “Political gridlock over U.S. debt not just America's problem,” 10-16-2013, http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-us-debt-default-global-consequences-20131016,0,5619804.story)
World financial leaders have been warning for weeks that the U.S. congressional
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S. securities, Mackinnon told Russia Today in an interview carried Wednesday.

Causes nuclear wars  and turns multilat  global democracy
Merlini 11 (Cesare, nonresident senior fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs, “A Post-Secular World?” Survival, 53(2), 2011, ebsco, ldg)
Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of
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theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.

Stock issue
 Cant  vote for the aff no plan text to vote on
Zero sum
US and Chinese interests in Latin America aren’t zero-sum – diplomacy solves
Global Times 5/31 – Chinese Newspaper(“China, US not competing over Latin America: expert”, Global Times, May 31, 2013, http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/785721.shtml#.UdTAEvmgWaU, Daehyun)
Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to Latin America and the Caribbean on Friday, in
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first summit with President Barack Obama on June 7 to 8 in California.
US influence in Latin America’s resilient and the thesis of the DA is wrong
Duddy and Mora 5-1
Patrick – US Ambassador to Venezuela until 2010 and Senior Lecturer at Duke. And Frank – Director of Latin American Center at Florida Intl University and former Assistant Secretary of Defense – Western Hemisphere (09-13). “Latin America: Is U.S. influence waning?” 5/1/13 http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/01/3375160/latin-america-is-us-influence.html#storylink=cpy
As Moises Naim notes in his recent book, The End of Power, there
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the region to play a fundamental role and to advance its own interests.

No internal link - China isn’t competing for influence with the US
Pei, 12 – Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont-McKenna College (Minxin, “Does China represent an economic and political threat to the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere?” January 11, 2012, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3254)//VP
With China’s growing economic presence in the Western Hemisphere, it is inevitable that a
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. Most probably it is good for the U.S. itself.
The relationship is trilateral and US engagement helps China
Shaiken et al ‘13
Harley. Prof in the Center for Latin American Studies at UC-Berkeley. And Enrique Peters – Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. And Adrian Hearn – Centro de Estudios China-Mexixo at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. China and the New Triangular Relationships in the Americas: China and the Future of US-Mexico Relations, 2013.  Pg 32-33
If one simply looks at China’s trade surplus with the United States and Mexico,
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to one based on innovation - in order to sustain its economic growth.
cyber
Cyber-attacks do not outweigh anything – every empirical example speaks to the contrary
Keane 13 – Crikey Canberra Correspondent (Bernard, Eleven reasons to be sceptical of warnings of cyber warfare, Crikey, 1-24-2013, http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/24/eleven-reasons-to-be-sceptical-of-warnings-of-cyber-warfare/)//BDS
Cyber warfare and cybersecurity are the most heavily hyped threats in public policy since the war on terror began.
This morning, Prime Minister Julia Gillard toured the Cyber Security Operations Centre in Canberra
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.” (Martin Libicki, Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar, RAND Corporation, 2009)

Cyber war is not feasible for achieving military goals. Advocates conflate possibility with probable outcomes
Gartzke 12 – professor of political science at the University of California focusing on institutional correlates to war and peace, Ph.D.in political science (Erik, The Myth of Cyberwar Bringing War on the Internet Back Down to Earth, Division of Social Sciences UCSD, 12-7-2012 http://dss.ucsd.edu/~egartzke/papers/cyberwar_12062012.pdf)//BDS 

A blitz of media, punditry and public pronouncements inform interested observers and policy makers
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yet another set of technologies that extend existing disparities in power and influence.

Cyber-attacks don’t accomplish strategic goals
Ranum 04-  senior scientist at TruSecure Corp. and the author of The Myth of Homeland Security (Marcus J., Cyberwar myths: Are cyberwarfare and cyberterrorism overblown?, Security magazine, 4-2004, http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/opinion/Cyberwar-myths-Are-cyberwarfare-and-cyberterrorism-overblown)//BDS 

We've lived under the cyberwar/cyberterrorist cloud for more than a decade. But
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improving security than trying to scare people with tales of cyber-invaders.

No impact to cyber attacks
Saunders 7-7 – international affairs columnist (Doug, Our computers are not going to kill us all: Cyber-war is military fiction, The Globe and Mail, 7-7-2013, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/cyberspace-is-not-a-combat-zone/article13035562/)//BDS 

“The next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyberattack.” That’s
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that’s not war, and it shouldn’t be a job for the warriors.
No war or escalation- nuclear primacy prevents
Ross ‘5 (Robert S., Staff Writer for the National Interest, Fall, Assessing the China Threat. The National Interest. Lexis)
At the strategic level, after decades of research and testing, China is preparing
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. nuclear capabilities ever provided for our European allies during the Cold War.

cyber terror
No risk of extinction- its all exaggerated  
Singer, 12 – Director 21st Century Defense Initiative (Peter, “The Cyber Terror Bogeyman”, Armed Forces Journal, November, http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2012/11/cyber-terror-singer)//VP
But so far, what terrorists have accomplished in the cyber realm doesn’t match our
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, but there are no threats that threaten our fundamental way of life.”

democracy 

There is no correlation between democracy and peace.
Rosato ’3 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame (Sebastian, “The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory,” The American Political Science Review, November 2003, http://rrii.150m.com/t08/Sebastian20Rosato20-20The20Flawed20Logic20of20Democratic20Peace20Theory.pdf)//SS

The causal logics that underpin democratic peace the- ¶ ory cannot explain why democracies
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that, while morally praiseworthy, does not make ¶ America more secure.

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1NC
 

Neolib
Movements against neoliberalism are growing in Latin America and spill over -- the plans reifies neoliberalism -~-- ethics require we de-link to preserve the environment and indigenous culture.
Harris 8 (Richard L Harris: Professor of Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay; Managing Editor of the Journal of Developing Societies (SAGE India); and Coordi­ nating Editor of Latin American Perspectives (SAGE USA). “Latin America’s Response to Neoliberalism and Globalization,” http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3506_2.pdf)
The economic, political and social development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries is
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model of uneven and inequitable development that has pillaged most of the region. 

The utopian neoliberal discourse of nanotech glosses over the inherent risks of nanotech - risks environmental catastrophe, intergenerational inequality, and destroys democracy
Rudd, 09 - Jeffery Rudd is a lawyer who is now a doctoral student
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was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant no. DMR0425880.)RJ
This dissertation analyzes institutional and ideological changes occurring since the  Environmental Era supporting its thesis
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incentives for industry to share riskrelated information, and enhance the EPA's political accountability

Environment collapse causes extinction – tipping points are coming
Foster et al., Oregon sociology professor, 2010
(John, The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, pg 14-8, ldg)
It is common today to see this ecological rift simply in terms of climate change
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to nature arising from an alienated system of capital accumulation without end.' 

Vote Neg to reject the Aff’s neoliberal economic engagement in favor of a commons-based approach. That solves and creates space to challenge neoliberalism
De Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2003
(Massimo, “Reflections on alternatives, commons and communities”, Winter, http://www.commoner.org.uk/deangelis06.pdf, DOA: 7-2-12, ldg)
This movement has posed the question of a plurality of “alternatives” to the
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, at the same time building and strengthening communities through the social fields. 

TG2G

1. Interpretation – “Its” is possessive of the USFG
   Updegrave 91 (W.C., “Explanation of ZIP Code Address Purpose”, 8-19, http://www.supremelaw.org/ref/zipcode/updegrav.htm)
   More specifically, looking at the map on page 11 of the National ZIP Code
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   Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, making the explanatory statement literally correct. 

“Engagement” requires direct talks with a topic country
Crocker 9 – Chester Crocker, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, “Terms of Engagement”, New York Times, 9-13, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/opinion/14crocker.html?_r=0
PRESIDENT OBAMA will have a hard time achieving his foreign policy goals until he masters
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realistic options and, hence, to modify its policies and its behavior.

This excludes non-governmental actors
Haass 00 – Richard Haass and Meghan O’Sullivan, Senior Fellows in the Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Program, Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions, and Foreign Policy, p. 5-6
Similarly, political engagement can involve the lure of diplomatic recognition, access to regional
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of the incentives that might be offered under a policy of cultural engagement.

2. Violation – the plan is a unilateral change in policy that does not increase U.S. government dialogue with a topic government
3. Voting issue:

1. Limits – direct talks places a functional limit on the topic – otherwise, any change in U.S. policy can be interpreted as engagement
   2. Ground – talks are a stable mechanism for topic disads and counterplans – that’s key to fairness

PTX
Passing part of CIR ensures that the rest fail
Young ’10 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform—Dead, Dismembered, or Alive? Posted February 17, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.

There are also calls for abandoning the Comprehensive Immigration Reform effort and instead trying to
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with the greatest effort, defeat will be certain if we give up. 

Failure confirms global fears of terminal political dysfunction – collapses U.S. influence and turns their perception advantages
Hammond 10-17 (Andrew Hammond, Prospect Magazine, “Debt debacle sends global shockwaves,” 10-17-2013, http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/prospector/debt-debacle-sends-global-shockwaves/#.UmDegDfD_ZY)
At the eleventh hour, Congress has agreed a short-term deal to raise
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a responsible international power, but could potentially send it into freefall again.

Independently triggers global economic collapse
Williams 10-13 (Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, “Political gridlock over U.S. debt not just America's problem,” 10-16-2013, http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-us-debt-default-global-consequences-20131016,0,5619804.story)
World financial leaders have been warning for weeks that the U.S. congressional
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S. securities, Mackinnon told Russia Today in an interview carried Wednesday.

Causes nuclear wars  and turns multilat  global democracy
Merlini 11 (Cesare, nonresident senior fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs, “A Post-Secular World?” Survival, 53(2), 2011, ebsco, ldg)
Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of
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theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.

CP
The United States federal government should implement a renewable, portable guest worker visa for international workers If and only if congress passes the Renewable Fuel Standard Reform Act.

Our Advocate
Goodlatte, 13 (Bob, US congressman on house ag committee, Bob Goodlatte, Eliminate the Ethanol Mandate, 4-10-2013, http://goodlatte.house.gov/pages/Waive-the-Ethanol-Mandate//BDS)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bob Goodlatte released the following statement after
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Federation, the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, and Taxpayers for Common Sense.

They’ll say yes and it avoids politics
 LeVaux 13 (Ari, Slate, The One Issue Republicans and Democrats Can Agree On Ethanol is insane, and politicians outside the Beltway are finally fighting it, 7-12-2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/food/2013/07/renewable_fuel_standard_repeal_how_states_are_chipping_away_at_the_corn.html//BDS)

While recent Supreme Court rulings on voting rights and same-sex marriage have held
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sex marriage, sometimes when the states lead, the federal government follows.

Corn ethanol causes fertilizer runoff and dead zones – this devastates marine life
Specht, 13 – Legal Advisor, Pearlmaker Holsteins, Inc., B.A., LSU (Jonathan, “Raising Cane: Cuban Sugarcane Ethanol’s Economic and Environmental Effects on the United States”, UC Davis, 4-24-13, http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf)//NG

By boosting the price of corn relative to other crops like soybeans, however,
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has been linked to corn production and thus to the domestic ethanol industry. 

All life depends on healthy oceans.
NOAA 1998 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1998 Year of the Ocean Report, http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/yoto/meeting/mar_env_316.html)

The ocean plays a critical role in sustaining the life of this planet. Every
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This in turn drives up the cost of fish at local markets nationwide.
The environment and the economic health of marine and coastal waters are linked at the
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in the process of development (President’s Council on Sustainable Development, 1996).
Much about the ocean, its processes, and the interrelationship between land and sea
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environmental quality should continue to improve, sustaining resources for generations to come.
"It does not matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent
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we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one."

Manufacturing

Manufacturing High now postdates aff ev by four months
Signh 10-4 (Harkamal, Top News, Manufacturing Industry in US Witnesses Growth, 10-04-2013, http://topnews.us/content/257450-manufacturing-industry-us-witnesses-growth//BDS)

As per a report, manufacturing industry in the US has been witnessing growth.
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been even better if the government's partial shutdown would not have taken place.

Too many alt causes for them to solve
Jasinowski 4-22-2013 (Jerry Jasinowshi, Former President of the National Association of Manufacturers, “A Real Manufacturing Resurgence.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-jasinowski/manufacturing-comeback_b_3131062.html )NR

There are contradictory analyses in the media about a resurgence of manufacturing - some praising
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need to make it happen. We should read it and heed it.

No risk of China-Russia war – meetings and energy cooperation prove
Keek, 3/23 – Writer for the Diplomat (Zachary, “Ties that Bind: Can China-Russia Relations Endure?”, The Diplomat, 2013, http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2013/07/12/why-china-and-the-us-probably-wont-go-to-war/)//VP
The long-running consensus in the West and elsewhere has been that China and
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by 2035 will be China importing 75 percent of the oil it consumes.

Ayson flips neg- terrorism is not an existential risk
Ayson 10 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 33.7, Francis and Taylor)VP
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by
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a truly awful nuclear exchange taking place precipitated entirely by state possessors themselves.

Nanotechnology is not inevitable
Jones, 02 – senior associate at Foresight Nanotech Institute (Tanya, “Foresight Update 49” Foresight Institute, http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update49/Update49.2.html)//VP
Neil Jacobstein spoke on combating anti-technology memes in the fresh light of his
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, anti-technology memes might be countered or diffused in reasoned debate.

Nanotech is bad-

1) extinction
Snyder, 10 – Stanford University School of Medicine Professor (Michael, “Mind Control? Scientists Have Discovered How To Use Nanoparticles To Remotely Control Behavior!”, July 12, Inteldaily; http://inteldaily.com/2010/07/mind-control-scientists-have-discovered-how-to-use-nanoparticles-to-remotely-control-behavior/)//VP
Are we moving into a time when the extraordinary advances that have been made in
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behavior. Think of what just one terrorist could do with such technology. 

2) Grey goo = extinction
Keiper 3 Adam Keiper, managing editor of The New Atlantis, “The Nanotechnology Revolution” The New Atlantis July 1 2003cc
The health and environmental threats posed by mainstream nanotech are far less frightening than the
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single replicating assembler of the wrong kind be loosed on an unprepared world.

3) Nanotechnology would facilitate bio-terrorism – weapons would be easier to conceal
CRN, 08 – non-profit research and advocacy think tank concerned with the major societal and environmental implications of advanced nanotechnology and a modern, networked, virtual organization -- with no "brick and mortar" -- a collection of more than 100 volunteers, over 1000 interested followers, and a small team of primary coordinators with no direct affiliation to any government, business, or academic organization (“Dangers of Molecular Manufacturing”, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, 2008, http://www.crnano.org/dangers.htm#terrorists)//EX

Criminals and terrorists with stronger, more powerful, and much more compact devices could
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them would almost certainly be intrusive enough to violate current human rights standards.

4) Nanotech severely destabilizes international security, increasing the severity and magnitude of global wars - no risk of offense
Treder 2008 Mike Treder, executive director of Center for Responsible Nanotechnology and BS in Biology from University of Washington, and Chris Pheonix, Director of Research at CRN and studied nanotechnology for more than 15 years, MS in computer science from Stanford, "Nanotechnology: Dangers of Molecular Manufacturing," Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, last updated 7 February 2008, http://www.crnano.org/dangers.htm//cc
New products and lifestyles may cause significant social disruption. For example, medical devices
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groups self-sufficient, it can encourage the breakup of existing nations.  

Ag

Status quo illegal immigration solves, aff’s high skilled visas fail because those jobs are supported  by low skill jobs
Tamar Jacoby; 4-17-2012; president of ImmigrationWorks USA; New York Times; A Price Tag in the Billions; http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/17/could-farms-survive-without-illegal-labor/without-immigrant-labor-the-economy-would-crumble//BDS

If only it were that easy — that the only consequence of driving unauthorized farm
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the cost won't be pennies: it will run to billions of dollars.

Ecosystem resiliency prevents collapse
Davidson, 2k – PhD student in the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California (Carlos, “Economic Growth and the Environment”, Bioscience Newspaper, Volume 50 No. 5, May, http://online.sfsu.edu/carlosd/davidson-biosci00.PDF)//VP
Biodiversity limits. The original rivet metaphor (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1981) referred to
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not a putative cliff that humans will fall off of somewheredown the road.

Warming inevitable even if we cut emissions to zero—multiple studies confirm
Gillett et al 10—director @ the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Nathan, “Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions”. Nature Geoscience
Several recent studies have demonstrated that CO2-induced 17 global mean temperature change is
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several centuries owing to the long delay associated with 42 subsurface ocean warming.
Modeling is structurally impossible in China
Downs 8
Eric, Fellow @ Brookings, China Energy Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, China’s Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts, http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2008/0813_china_downs.aspx
China suffers from a disconnect between the increasingly prominent position of energy issues on its
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bend other actors, notably firms and local governments, to its will.

China makes food prices high which hurts other countries not vice versa
Kane and Serewicz 1 (Thomas. Security Studies from Hull. And Lawrence – Foreign Policy Analyst “China's Hunger: The Consequences of a Rising Demand for Food and Energy” Parameters, Fall 2001BDS)

To summarize, China's resource needs have global consequences. The most immediate effect of
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reduce the resources that they have available for responding to other world events.
Multiple alternate causes to food prices
Teslik 08 – Assistant Editor at Council on Foreign Relations (Lee Hudson, “Food Prices”,  6/30/2008, http://www.cfr.org/publication/16662/food_prices.html)  
Before considering factors like supply and demand within food markets, it is important to
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University, cites European bans on genetically modified crops as a prime example.