1 Time is running out for immigration but compromise for passage will happen now Parkinson 11/22 (John, writer, abc news, “Boehner Says Prospects for Immigration Reform ‘Absolutely Not’ Dead”, http://www.630wpro.com/common/more.php?m=58andts=1385112903andarticle=96E4630552F011E3B51EFEFDADE6840Aandmode=2) While just eight days of legislative business remain before lawmakers are expected to leave Washington AND can act upon that legislation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said.
Unilateral and unconditional approach toward Cuba collapses Congressional support Perez 10 (David A, yale law school jd, harvard latino law review, spring, “America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department”, peer reviewed)
Anti-Americanism has become the political chant de jour for leaders seeking long- AND throughout Latin America, and would go a long way toward creating goodwill.
High tech reform is key to semiconductors Toohey 12 (Brian, SIA President, May 24, 2012, “TechElect Advances Proposals to Create and Sustain AmericanJobs”) A new nonpartisan campaign called TechElect, launched by the Information Technology Industry Council ( AND total sales, which is one of the top rates of any industry. With smart government policies – including investments in basic research, corporate tax reform, and high-skilled immigration reform – the semiconductor industry can continue to create jobs, drive economic growth and develop the technologies needed to solve our most pressing challenges.
Semiconductors are key to US nuclear modernization Chandratre et al 7 (V.B. Chandratre et al 7, Menka Tewani, R.S. Shastrakar, V. Shedam, S. K. Kataria and P. K. Mukhopadhyay Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre “AN APPROACH TO MODERNIZING NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION: SILICON-BASED SENSORS, ASIC AND HMC” October, http://www.barc.ernet.in/publications/nl/2007/200710-2.pdf) Modernization of nuclear instrumentation is pursued for realizing the goal of compact portable nuclear instruments AND electronics. Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have aided in realizing this concept.
Loss of US nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252) Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have AND scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict.
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Obama is taking a hard line stance against Cuba now. Forero 1/22/13 - NPR's South America correspondent and The Washington Post's correspondent for Colombia and Venezuela (Juan, “Obama's Unfinished Business: Latin America”, January 22 of 2013, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169980241/obamas-unfinished-business-latin-america)
FORERO: Well, I think there's two policy shifts in Cuba that are super AND , the Cuban-American community, particularly in Florida, does vote.
Unilateral and unconditional lifting undermines US credibility; causes nuclear terrorism and encourages worse rights abuses in Cuba Suchlicki 2010 (Jamie, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami, “American Tourists Won't Bring Democracy to Cuba”, Targeted News Service, Lexis) Lifting the travel ban without major concessions from Cuba would send the wrong message " AND concessions or when there is a democratic government in place in the island.
Appeasement causes credibility loss worldwide Hanson, 2009 (American military historian, columnist and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Victor, “Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson”, December 7 of 2009, Interview between Bernard Chapin and Hanson, http://pjmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/)
BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies AND tiger and now no one quite knows whom it will bite or when.
Credibility solves every nuclear war and extinction Coes, 2011 (Ben, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/)
The disease of a weak president usually begins with the Achilles’ heel all politicians are AND one or the other. The status quo is simply not an option.
3 Text: The United States federal government should enter into genuine, open-ended negotiations with the government of Cuba that avoid hostility and emphasize a friendly and mutually beneficial relationship. In these negotiations, the United States should offer to end its economic sanctions on the Republic of Cuba if the government of Cuba agrees to end political repression and release all political prisoners.
The Affs decision to engage outside the framework of negotiations is perceived as a victory for the Cuban hardline –and– it eliminates the leverage needed to end political repression in Cuba. Only the counterplan results in the release of political prisoners and only the counterplan empowers Cuban reformers. Perez, 2010 (David A., Yale Law School, America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, Lexis)
American diplomacy has traditionally suffered from a lack of funding and use. n62 This AND the stick of increased sanctions, and a reversion back to diplomatic isolation.
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LINK - The plan dooms the Cuban population to tyrannical repression – it decimates the leverage needed to encourage Cuba to release prisoners and reform. -And, It means the plans strengthens the Castro regime’s hardline approach, because it undermines the popular message of reformers – it makes it seem like Castro’s strategy was successful and resulted in the U.S. giving Cuba everything it wants unconditionally Sanguinetty 2013 Jorge A., Democracy, Development, and Institutions, “Who benefits and loses if the US-Cuba embargo is lifted?”, http://devresearchcenter.org/2013/04/08/who-benefits-and-loses-if-the-us-cuba-embargo-is-lifted-by-jorge-a-sanguinetty/ The answer depends on the conditions under which the embargo is lifted. I focus AND lifting of the US embargo is likely to bring about democracy in Cuba.
And – This makes the counterplan is the only ethical option – it’s a moral side constraint Petro 1974 Sylvester, Wake Forest Professor in Toledo Law Review, Spring, page 480 However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway - "I believe in AND every invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit. 5 The Cuban economy is failing now Lopez-Levy, 2011 (Arturo Lopez-Levy, Lecturer and PhD Candidate at the School of International Studies University of Denver, “Change In Post-Fidel Cuba: Political Liberalization, Economic Reform and Lessons for U.S. Policy”, New American Foundation, 05/2011, http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/naf_all_cuba_reform_final.pdf) Most of these ideas about economic reform are in their initial stages. It is AND leaders, seem to be oblivious to the problems associated with excessive gradualism. Empowering moderates via the counterplan is critical to long-term solvency of the Cuban economy- it makes reforms successful and prevents Cuban instability Ratliff, 13 (William, senior fellow hoover institution, “Cuba’s tortured transition”, 1-30-13, http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/139281) The dean of Cuban-American economists, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, considers these AND life, the most recent being the liberalization of laws on foreign travel.
And – Empowering moderates via the counterplan is critical to long-term solvency of the Affs advantages – the plan causes a quick and lasting reversal of gains that turns the entire case Perez-Stable, 2011 (Marifeli, Professor of Sociology at Florida Internatonal University and non-resident senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, The United States and Cuba “Policy in Place for 50 Years Hasn’t Worked”)
Striking the right balance between realism and principle on Cuba would not come easily.¶ AND , Cuban domestic affairs mattered, sometimes decisively, for its foreign relations.
1/3/14
1NC Glenbrooks Round 3 vs Bellmont
Tournament: Glenbrook | Round: 3 | Opponent: Bellmont | Judge: Nate Wong 1 Time is running out for immigration but compromise for passage will happen now – that’s key Parkinson 11/22 (John, writer, abc news, “Boehner Says Prospects for Immigration Reform ‘Absolutely Not’ Dead”, http://www.630wpro.com/common/more.php?m=58andts=1385112903andarticle=96E4630552F011E3B51EFEFDADE6840Aandmode=2) While just eight days of legislative business remain before lawmakers are expected to leave Washington AND can act upon that legislation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said.
Reforming US-Cuba trade laws cause fierce political fights NY Times 12 (“Easing of Restraints in Cuba Renews Debate on U.S. Embargo”, November 19th, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/americas/changes-in-cuba-create-support-for-easing-embargo.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0) And Cuba has a long history of tossing ice on warming relations. The latest AND reforms’ while, in reality, it’s tightening its grip on its people.” High tech reform is key to semiconductors Toohey 12 (Brian, SIA President, May 24, 2012, “TechElect Advances Proposals to Create and Sustain AmericanJobs”) A new nonpartisan campaign called TechElect, launched by the Information Technology Industry Council ( AND total sales, which is one of the top rates of any industry. With smart government policies – including investments in basic research, corporate tax reform, and high-skilled immigration reform – the semiconductor industry can continue to create jobs, drive economic growth and develop the technologies needed to solve our most pressing challenges.
Semiconductors are key to US nuclear modernization Chandratre et al 7 (V.B. Chandratre et al 7, Menka Tewani, R.S. Shastrakar, V. Shedam, S. K. Kataria and P. K. Mukhopadhyay Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre “AN APPROACH TO MODERNIZING NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION: SILICON-BASED SENSORS, ASIC AND HMC” October, http://www.barc.ernet.in/publications/nl/2007/200710-2.pdf) Modernization of nuclear instrumentation is pursued for realizing the goal of compact portable nuclear instruments AND electronics. Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have aided in realizing this concept.
Loss of US nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252) Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have AND scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict.
2 Obama is taking a hard line stance against Cuba now. Forero 1/22/13 - NPR's South America correspondent and The Washington Post's correspondent for Colombia and Venezuela (Juan, “Obama's Unfinished Business: Latin America”, January 22 of 2013, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169980241/obamas-unfinished-business-latin-america)
FORERO: Well, I think there's two policy shifts in Cuba that are super AND , the Cuban-American community, particularly in Florida, does vote.
The administration’s conduct is all the more galling given the behavior of the Castro regime AND to throw gifts to tyrants in the expectation they will reciprocate in kind. Appeasement causes credibility loss worldwide Hanson, 2009 (American military historian, columnist and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Victor, “Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson”, December 7 of 2009, Interview between Bernard Chapin and Hanson, http://pjmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/)
BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies AND tiger and now no one quite knows whom it will bite or when.
Credibility solves every nuclear war and extinction Coes, 2011 (Ben, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/)
The disease of a weak president usually begins with the Achilles’ heel all politicians are AND one or the other. The status quo is simply not an option. 3 Status squo Cuba is gradually reforming their economic system but a delicate balance between shock therapy and gradualism is crucial to make reforms work. Sweig and Rockefeller, 2013 (Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies, and Michael Bustamante “Cuba After Communism The Economic Reforms That Are Transforming the Island” http://www.cfr.org/cuba/cuba-after-communism/p30991)
Small-time diaspora capital may prove easier to regulate and rely on than funds AND the black market or assistance from family abroad to acquire many daily necessities.
The plan tips the ideological needle --- Increasing US Capital in Cuba floods Cuba’s market --- That causes political instability and overheating. Hernandez, 2012 (Cuba’s Leading Social Sciences professor and researcher at the University of Havana and the High Institute of International Relations; Director of U.S. studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre America; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto cubano de Investigacion Cultural “Juan Marinello” in Havana. “Debating U.S-Cuban Relations”)
As far as costs are concerned, although many Cubans favor detente and appreciate its AND dealing effectively with "communist regimes" but its sense of superpower omnipotence.
This makes hostilities inevitable --- Structural contradictions prevent peaceful engagement due to the de-legitimization of Raul --- causes armed conflicts. Treto, 2012 (Carlos, Professor and Senior researcher at the University of Havana’s Centro de Estudios Hemisfericos y de Estados Unidos and a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He was a former Cuban ambassador the EU and to Belgium and Luxembourg and a former Cuban Minister to Ethiopia; visiting scholar at universities in the US, Mexico and Europe; visiting professor at Beloit College, the University of Basque Country, and the University of Winnipeg. Debating U.S. - Cuban Relations Chapter: “Cuba’s National Security vis-à-vis the United States”)
In the historical period preceding the one analyzed here, two opposite visions took shape AND to terrorist actors that have damaged the United States or any other country.¶
Inflows are coming gradually now and leveling off but the plan immediately causes massive waves of capital to Cuba --- That uniquely destroys Cuba’s economy. Piccone, 2012 (Ted Piccone is a senior fellow and deputy director for Foreign Policy at Brookings. Piccone specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations; global democracy and human rights; and multilateral affairs. Piccone serves as an advisor to the Club of Madrid and has served on the National Security Council, at the State Department and Pentagon), Brookings, “Cuba Is Changing, Slowly but Surely,” January 19, 2012, http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2012/01/19-cuba-piccone
A closer look, however, reveals something more profound—a wholesale mental shift AND will, with time, make long overdue reconciliation with the United States inevitable 4 Text: The United States federal government should expand visas and ease restrictions for grant money for Cuban scientists. Visas solve science coop Ordonez, 12 (Franco, regional correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, “Scientists work to bridge political gap between Cuba, U.S.,” McClatchy News, 5-21-12, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/05/21/149603/scientists-work-to-bridge-political.html#.UfwlE22DL1U) There are still considerable obstacles to be overcome. In addition to needing visas to travel to the United States, Cuban scientists work with fewer resources. The Internet also is not easily accessible. In February, Fabian Pina, a scientist with Cuba’s Center for Coastal Ecosystems Research in Cayo Coco, Cuba, was awarded a $150,000 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to study goliath grouper populations in Cuba, the first time a Cuban researcher has received the prestitigous grant, a kin, in the marine science world, to winning a MacArthur “genius grant.” But Pina was supposed to be in the 2011 class. It took months to get proper approvals from U.S. officials, who were concerned the grant money would be taken or taxed by the Cuban government. 5 Text: Using its licensing authority and enforcement discretion, the United States Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control should exempt transactions involving economic sanctions from enforcement under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations. The counterplan solves the case --- The OFAC has control over sanctions enforcement allowing them to provide specific exemptions without lifting the embargo. Golumbic and Ruff, 2013 (Court E. Golumbic, Managing Director and Global Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Bribery and Government Sanctions Compliance Officer at Goldman Sachs and Co., Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, former Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and Robert S. Ruff III, Associate in the Securities Litigation practice group at Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP, 2013 “Leveraging the Three Core Competencies: How OFAC Licensing Optimizes Holistic Sanctions,” North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation (38 N.C.J. Int'l L. and Com. Reg. 729), Spring)
2. Ability to Mitigate Collateral Damage¶ Because OFAC prefers to formulate its sanctions AND produce the desired change, rather than on innocent civilians and businesses. n353 That solves quickly and avoids congressional backlash — it doesn’t require legislative or regulatory action. Golumbic and Ruff, 2013 (Court E. Golumbic, Managing Director and Global Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Bribery and Government Sanctions Compliance Officer at Goldman Sachs and Co., Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, former Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and Robert S. Ruff III, Associate in the Securities Litigation practice group at Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP, 2013 “Leveraging the Three Core Competencies: How OFAC Licensing Optimizes Holistic Sanctions,” North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation (38 N.C.J. Int'l L. and Com. Reg. 729), Spring)
3. Adaptability The third core competency of OFAC's licensing practices is the ability to AND a regulatory overhaul or the signing or withdrawal of an executive order. n391
1/3/14
1NC Glenbrooks Round 5 vs Katy Taylor LA
Tournament: Glenbrook | Round: 5 | Opponent: Katy Taylor LA | Judge: Yunhan Xu Glenbrook Round 5 1 A) “Resolved” before a colon reflects a legislative forum Army Officer School, 04 (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)
The colon introduces the following: a. A list, but only after " AND resolved:"Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor. B) “United States Federal Government should” means the debate is solely about the outcome of a policy established by governmental means Ericson, 03 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains AND compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. Third --- A general subject isn’t enough—debate requires a specific point of difference- only way to garner quality decision making skills Steinberg and Freeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-
Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of AND particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.
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Interpretation: Economic engagement requires direct engagement with the topic country by the government and provide direct economic aid. Haass and O'Sullivan, 2000 (Richard and Meghan, VP/Director of Foreign Policy Studies + Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program @ Brookings, "Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies," Survival, p. 2-3 (maybe merge with prior card…)
Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of¶ incentives. Economic AND just some of the possible incentives used in the form of¶ engagement.
c) Topical fairness requirements are key to effective dialogue—monopolizing strategy and prep makes the discussion one-sided and subverts any meaningful neg role Galloway 7—Samford Comm prof (Ryan, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007)
Debate as a dialogue sets an argumentative table, where all parties receive a relatively AND substitutes for topical action do not accrue the dialogical benefits of topical advocacy.
3 Borders are good Rejection Fails - Borders are intrinsic to human identity and ethics WILLIAMS, 2003 (JOHN, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, GEOPOLITICS, V8, N2, SUMMER, P. 38-39)
The endurance of borders and boundaries in human society, whether they be territorial borders AND human life, and a basic category of ethical thought about that life..
Turn - open borders allow for global biopower and racist denials of difference Sparrow, 2003(Robert, lect Itiphil @ U Wollongong, Arena Magazine 66, www.safecom.org.au/noborders.littn)
Without citizenship - without local, or regional, or national borders - the only AND , such a denial of difference itself mav constitute a form of racism. Reducing borders just creates new, more hostile ones Tuathail, 1999 (Gerard - Prof of geography at Virginia Tech, "borderless worlds?: problematizing discburses of deterritorialization," May, http://www.toal.net/Publish/papers/Borderless.htm)
The third argument is that the consequences of de- and re-territorialization at AND concept and practice deconstructs itself. Borderless worlds, in short borders worlds.
Governments will reassert borders to protect collective identity Goff, 2000 (Patricia, University of Utah, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, December, p.533)
I argue that it is too early to sound the death knell of the national AND not as barriers to entry, but as boundaries demarcating distinct political communities.
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Particular demands re-ify the hold of capital Zizek 02 Slavoj Zizek, married to a hottie, Revolution at the Gates, pg 296-302
So the struggle ahead has no guaranteed outcome – it will confront us with an AND possible" (or, as we usually put it, "feasible").
Capitalism causes extinction while entrenching racist and sexist violence, outweighs everything about the aff Brown, 5 — Professor of Economics and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan (Charles Brown, http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@sus.csuchico.edu/msg04868.html) The capitalist class owns the factories, the banks, and transportation-the means AND at large remains a shameful fact of life in the U.S.
The alt is to refuse to engage in capitalism --- Refusing to engage in capital collapses it. Impact turns are irrelevant – tragedy and oppression happen all around us and capitalism makes extinction inevitable Holloway, 2010 (John, Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in Mexico, Crack Capitalism, 3-7)
Break. We want to break. We want to break the world as it AND organisation of a manifestly unjust and destructive society, What can we do ?
1/3/14
1NC Glenbrooks Round 7 vs Harker
Tournament: Glenbrook | Round: 7 | Opponent: Harker S | Judge: Val McIntosh 1 Time is running out for immigration but compromise for passage will happen now- that’s key Parkinson 11/22 (John, writer, abc news, “Boehner Says Prospects for Immigration Reform ‘Absolutely Not’ Dead”, http://www.630wpro.com/common/more.php?m=58andts=1385112903andarticle=96E4630552F011E3B51EFEFDADE6840Aandmode=2) While just eight days of legislative business remain before lawmakers are expected to leave Washington AND can act upon that legislation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said.
Economic engagement with Mexico is politically divisive despite supporters Wilson 13 –(Christopher E., January, Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International. Center for Scholars, “A U.S.-Mexico Economic Alliance: Policy Options for a Competitive Region,” http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/new_ideas_us_mexico_relations.pdf) At a time when Mexico is poised to experience robust economic growth, a manufacturing AND action to support regional exporters more politically divisive than it ought to be. High tech reform is key to semiconductors Toohey 12 (Brian, SIA President, May 24, 2012, “TechElect Advances Proposals to Create and Sustain AmericanJobs”) A new nonpartisan campaign called TechElect, launched by the Information Technology Industry Council ( AND total sales, which is one of the top rates of any industry. With smart government policies – including investments in basic research, corporate tax reform, and high-skilled immigration reform – the semiconductor industry can continue to create jobs, drive economic growth and develop the technologies needed to solve our most pressing challenges.
Semiconductors are key to US nuclear modernization Chandratre et al 7 (V.B. Chandratre et al 7, Menka Tewani, R.S. Shastrakar, V. Shedam, S. K. Kataria and P. K. Mukhopadhyay Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre “AN APPROACH TO MODERNIZING NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION: SILICON-BASED SENSORS, ASIC AND HMC” October, http://www.barc.ernet.in/publications/nl/2007/200710-2.pdf) Modernization of nuclear instrumentation is pursued for realizing the goal of compact portable nuclear instruments AND electronics. Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have aided in realizing this concept.
Loss of US nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252) Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have AND scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict. 2 Text: Mexico should adopt secondary laws to enforce the enactment of the constitutional reform of telecommunications, radio broadcasting, and economic competition.
Solves Mexico’s economy O'Neill 13 (Shannon K., Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, "Economic Change on Mexico's Horizon", March 25 2013, www.cfr.org/mexico/economic-change-mexicos-horizon/p30311) President Peña Nieto's economic reforms are targeting the big empires of the country's telecommunications sector AND Televisa broadcaster is another one of the empires being targeted by these reforms. 3 Nieto has to credibility to follow through with his reform efforts now – but he has to tread carefully Thomson 4-24 - Adam Thomson is the FT's Mexico and Central America correspondent (Adam, “President Enrique Peña Nieto works to soothe Mexico tensions”, April 24 of 2013, Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/628aabae-acfa-11e2-9454-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2YVlziShn)
The final implication of Mexican nationalism for U.S.-Mexico relations is the AND being too willing to accept support and guidance from north of the border.
Nieto key to the drug war – new strategy stops the root cause of cartels and empirics prove – turns the aff Grillo et al, 2013 (Ioan, journalist and author of the book El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, has been reporting on the Mexican Drug War and the Latin American illegal drug trade since 2001 Dolly Mascarenas, “Mexico Goes After the Narcos — Before They Join the Gangs”, February 25 of 2013, Time, http://world.time.com/2013/02/25/mexico-goes-after-the-narcos-before-they-join-the-gangs/)
Recently installed President Enrique Peña Nieto hopes to reverse this trend with a new anticrime AND slums and cable cars transporting residents up its hills to increase economic opportunity.
4 The United States federal government should propose to the Organization of American States that the Organization of American States offer to implement bilateral automatic exchange of information with Mexico as it pertains to money laundering. First – the counterplan is competitive – it’s not “it’s engagement” Updegrave 91 (W.C., senior editor of Money Magazine for 17 years, “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 AND Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, making the explanatory statement literally correct.
And – the Counterplan solves the entire Aff and is net beneficial – by proposing OAS engagement the Counterplan reasserts the U.S. commitment to work through regional institutions instead of continuing ad hoc unilateralism. The plan sidelines the OAS and dooms any hope of vibrant regionalism IAD, 12 (Inter-American Dialogue, he Inter-American Dialogue is the leading uS center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication on issues in Western Hemisphere affairs. the Dialogue brings together public and private leaders from across the Americas to address hemispheric problems and opportunities. together they seek to build cooperation among Western Hemisphere nations and advance a regional agenda of democratic governance, social equity, and economic growth. the Dialogue’s select membership of 100 distinguished citizens from throughout the Americas includes political, business, academic, media, and other nongovernmental leaders. Fourteen Dialogue members served as presidents of their countries and more than two dozen have served at the cabinet level, “Remaking the relationship”, april 2012, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf)
Even as Latin America expands its global reach and presence, it is important that AND wellbeing. It is time to seize the moment and overhaul hemispheric relations.
And – the plan and the Counterplan are DISTINCT options – the plan decimates the OAS Malone, 3 (David, President of the Canadian International Development Research Centre, “Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International Perspectives”, 2003, https://www.rienner.com/uploads/47d832b1257af.pdf) A variant of how unilateral behavior can undermine one’s reputation relates to U.S AND is more likely to serve long-term U.S. interests.
And – The Counterplan is key to U.S.-Brazil relations – only a strong OAS can solidify partnership between the US and Brazil, which is necessary to solve regional prolif Einuadi, 11 (Luigi, ambassador, distinguished fellow at the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, and the National Defense University. Member for the Advisory Council of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “Brazil and the United States: The Need for Strategic Engagement”, march 2011, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docuploaded/SF2026620Einaudi.pdf) These words cannot be read simply as rhetoric rooted in the Third World trade unionism AND bedevil Brazil as it grows more rapidly than ¶ most countries around it.
And – Regional prolif guarantees global nuclear chaos Lyon 9 Program Director, Strategy and International, with Australian Strategic Policy Institute, previously a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Queensland, “A delicate issue, Asia’s nuclear future”, December, online Deterrence relationships in Asia won’t look like East–West deterrence. They won’t be AND the numbers and locations of weapons to minimise the vulnerability of their arsenals.
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1NC Mexican Politics
Tournament: Michigan | Round: 1 | Opponent: GBN MT | Judge: Jeremy Hammond Nieto has to credibility to follow through with his reform efforts now – but he has to tread carefully Thomson 4-24 - Adam Thomson is the FT's Mexico and Central America correspondent (Adam, “President Enrique Peña Nieto works to soothe Mexico tensions”, April 24 of 2013, Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/628aabae-acfa-11e2-9454-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2YVlziShn)
The final implication of Mexican nationalism for U.S.-Mexico relations is the AND being too willing to accept support and guidance from north of the border.
Nieto credibility is key the Mexican economy – loss of cred guarantees collapse Ruelas-Gossi, 2012 - professor of strategy at the Santiago, Chile-based Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Alejandro, “Peña Nieto's Plans for Mexico's Economy”, October 15 of 2012, Harvard Business Review, http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/mexico_is_the_perfect_dictator.html)
For one, Peña Nieto will likely bring about major reforms in the energy sector AND produced in the country -- just like some other countries in Latin America.
1/3/14
1NC Mexican Politics Disad
Tournament: Michigan | Round: 4 | Opponent: Roswell BR | Judge: Shane Stafford Nieto key to the drug war – new strategy stops the root cause of cartels and empirics prove Grillo et al, 2013 (Ioan, journalist and author of the book El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, has been reporting on the Mexican Drug War and the Latin American illegal drug trade since 2001 Dolly Mascarenas, “Mexico Goes After the Narcos — Before They Join the Gangs”, February 25 of 2013, Time, http://world.time.com/2013/02/25/mexico-goes-after-the-narcos-before-they-join-the-gangs/)
The final implication of Mexican nationalism for U.S.-Mexico relations is the AND being too willing to accept support and guidance from north of the border.
The drug trade funds Hezbollah and Iran—these funds lead to Middle East instability, nuclear terrorism, and Iranian prolif McCaul, 2012 (Michael, Rep. “A LINE IN THE SAND: COUNTERING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND TERROR AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER: MAJORITY REPORT BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, INVESTIGATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT,” http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/11-15-12-Line-in-the-Sand.pdf)
Hezbollah remains especially active in the TBA. 25 With an estimated $12 billion AND a secure Southwest border is always our first and last line of defense.
The experts who study this depressing issue seem to agree that a Middle East in AND must be stopped before it reaches fruition with a nuclear weapons delivery capability.”
As insanely dangerous as the mega-nuclear disaster in Japan is, events in AND , fought with 21st Century weaponry will be anything but the Biblical Armageddon.
1/3/14
1NC Ohio Valley Round 2 vs Westminster LS
Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westminster LS | Judge: Kelly Tieu 1 Time is running out for immigration but compromise for passage will happen now Parkinson 11/22 (John, writer, abc news, “Boehner Says Prospects for Immigration Reform ‘Absolutely Not’ Dead”, http://www.630wpro.com/common/more.php?m=58andts=1385112903andarticle=96E4630552F011E3B51EFEFDADE6840Aandmode=2) While just eight days of legislative business remain before lawmakers are expected to leave Washington AND can act upon that legislation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said.
Bipartisanship is key Feere 10/29 (Jon, writer, Washington times, “FEERE: Obama lures Republicans into his immigration trap”) The morning after a bipartisan vote to reopen the federal government, newspapers ran headlines AND not before giving the Democrats an opportunity to further damage the GOP brand.
High tech reform is key to semiconductors Toohey 12 (Brian, SIA President, May 24, 2012, “TechElect Advances Proposals to Create and Sustain AmericanJobs”) A new nonpartisan campaign called TechElect, launched by the Information Technology Industry Council ( AND total sales, which is one of the top rates of any industry. With smart government policies – including investments in basic research, corporate tax reform, and high-skilled immigration reform – the semiconductor industry can continue to create jobs, drive economic growth and develop the technologies needed to solve our most pressing challenges.
Semiconductors are key to US nuclear modernization Chandratre et al 7 (V.B. Chandratre et al 7, Menka Tewani, R.S. Shastrakar, V. Shedam, S. K. Kataria and P. K. Mukhopadhyay Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre “AN APPROACH TO MODERNIZING NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION: SILICON-BASED SENSORS, ASIC AND HMC” October, http://www.barc.ernet.in/publications/nl/2007/200710-2.pdf) Modernization of nuclear instrumentation is pursued for realizing the goal of compact portable nuclear instruments AND electronics. Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have aided in realizing this concept.
Loss of US nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252) Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have AND scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict.
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Text: The Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government should remove Cuba from the State Sponsored Terror List begin bilateral economic diplomacy with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and re-allocate more resources toward the United States Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control by diverting necessary and sufficient funds from the programs outlined in Senator Tom Coburn’s 2012 Waste Book report. Removing Cuba for the list solves Cuban engagment Allen, 4/11/2013(Bob Allen, managing editor of Associated Baptist Press., “Alliance: Drop Cuba from terror list”, ABP News, http://abpnews.com/ministry/organizations/item/8394-alliance-drop-cuba-from-terror-list#.UfgP-PUo4t1)
The Alliance of Baptists appealed April 6 to President Obama and Secretary of State John AND range of sanctions, including controls over exports and prohibitions on economic assistance.
Diplomatically, positive engagement with Venezuela would be a major step toward building American credibility AND because of the cooperation between Venezuela and a Boston-area oil company.
When a family faces a budget crisis, one of the first steps to financial AND -dollar projects add up, it’s the taxpayers that front the bill.
3 Obama is taking a hard line stance against Cuba now. Forero 1/22/13 - NPR's South America correspondent and The Washington Post's correspondent for Colombia and Venezuela (Juan, “Obama's Unfinished Business: Latin America”, January 22 of 2013, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169980241/obamas-unfinished-business-latin-america)
FORERO: Well, I think there's two policy shifts in Cuba that are super AND , the Cuban-American community, particularly in Florida, does vote.
The administration’s conduct is all the more galling given the behavior of the Castro regime AND to throw gifts to tyrants in the expectation they will reciprocate in kind. Appeasement causes credibility loss worldwide Hanson, 2009 (American military historian, columnist and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Victor, “Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson”, December 7 of 2009, Interview between Bernard Chapin and Hanson, http://pjmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/)
BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies AND tiger and now no one quite knows whom it will bite or when.
Credibility solves every nuclear war and extinction Coes, 2011 (Ben, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/)
The disease of a weak president usually begins with the Achilles’ heel all politicians are AND one or the other. The status quo is simply not an option. 4 The affirmatives scenarios of destruction are rooted in a flawed analysis of IR Theory, where one instance of instability is defragmented from the global system - The impact is extinction --- symptom based solutions directly trade off with structural problems its try or die for structural critique Ahmed, 2012 Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace and Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis
The twenty-first century heralds the unprecedented acceleration and convergence of multiple, interconnected AND turn radicalising the processes of social polarisation that can culminate in violent conflict.
Vote Neg to reject the dominant framing of security. A renewed focus on the epistemological and representational security lens is a prerequisite to effective policy solutions Bruce, 1996 (Robert, Associate Professor in Social Science – Curtin University and Graeme Cheeseman, Senior Lecturer – University of New South Wales, Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)
This goal is pursued in ways which are still unconventional in the intellectual milieu of AND resistant to them, or choose not to understand them, and why?
1/3/14
1NC Ohio Valley Round 3 vs JCHS
Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Johns Creek | Judge: Val McIntosh 1 Time is running out for immigration but compromise for passage will happen now Parkinson 11/22 (John, writer, abc news, “Boehner Says Prospects for Immigration Reform ‘Absolutely Not’ Dead”, http://www.630wpro.com/common/more.php?m=58andts=1385112903andarticle=96E4630552F011E3B51EFEFDADE6840Aandmode=2) While just eight days of legislative business remain before lawmakers are expected to leave Washington AND can act upon that legislation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said.
Unilateral and unconditional approach toward Cuba collapses Congressional support Perez 10 (David A, yale law school jd, harvard latino law review, spring, “America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department”, peer reviewed)
Anti-Americanism has become the political chant de jour for leaders seeking long- AND throughout Latin America, and would go a long way toward creating goodwill.
Bipartisanship is key Feere 10/29 (Jon, writer, Washington times, “FEERE: Obama lures Republicans into his immigration trap”) The morning after a bipartisan vote to reopen the federal government, newspapers ran headlines AND not before giving the Democrats an opportunity to further damage the GOP brand.
High tech reform is key to semiconductors Toohey 12 (Brian, SIA President, May 24, 2012, “TechElect Advances Proposals to Create and Sustain AmericanJobs”) A new nonpartisan campaign called TechElect, launched by the Information Technology Industry Council ( AND total sales, which is one of the top rates of any industry. With smart government policies – including investments in basic research, corporate tax reform, and high-skilled immigration reform – the semiconductor industry can continue to create jobs, drive economic growth and develop the technologies needed to solve our most pressing challenges.
Semiconductors are key to US nuclear modernization Chandratre et al 7 (V.B. Chandratre et al 7, Menka Tewani, R.S. Shastrakar, V. Shedam, S. K. Kataria and P. K. Mukhopadhyay Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre “AN APPROACH TO MODERNIZING NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION: SILICON-BASED SENSORS, ASIC AND HMC” October, http://www.barc.ernet.in/publications/nl/2007/200710-2.pdf) Modernization of nuclear instrumentation is pursued for realizing the goal of compact portable nuclear instruments AND electronics. Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have aided in realizing this concept.
Loss of US nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252) Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have AND scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict.
2 Obama is taking a hard line stance against Cuba now. Forero 1/22/13 - NPR's South America correspondent and The Washington Post's correspondent for Colombia and Venezuela (Juan, “Obama's Unfinished Business: Latin America”, January 22 of 2013, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169980241/obamas-unfinished-business-latin-america)
FORERO: Well, I think there's two policy shifts in Cuba that are super AND , the Cuban-American community, particularly in Florida, does vote.
LINK – Unilateral and unconditional lifting undermines US credibility; causes nuclear terrorism and encourages worse rights abuses in Cuba Suchlicki 2010 (Jamie, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami, “American Tourists Won't Bring Democracy to Cuba”, Targeted News Service, Lexis) Lifting the travel ban without major concessions from Cuba would send the wrong message " AND economic concessions or when there is a democratic government in place in the island Appeasement causes credibility loss worldwide Hanson, 2009 (American military historian, columnist and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Victor, “Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson”, December 7 of 2009, Interview between Bernard Chapin and Hanson, http://pjmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/)
BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies AND tiger and now no one quite knows whom it will bite or when.
Credibility solves every nuclear war and extinction Coes, 2011 (Ben, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/)
The disease of a weak president usually begins with the Achilles’ heel all politicians are AND one or the other. The status quo is simply not an option. 3
Text: The Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government should begin bilateral economic diplomacy with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela end its occupation of its naval base in Guantanamo bay and cede the land back to Cuba. Engagement with Venezuela solves US relations at large and in Latin America Griffin 4-3-13 (John A. Griffin III ’16, Harvard Crimson editorial writer, “Engage with Venezuela”, April 3rd, 2013, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/3/Harvard-Venezuela-Chavez-death/)
Diplomatically, positive engagement with Venezuela would be a major step toward building American credibility AND because of the cooperation between Venezuela and a Boston-area oil company.
The counterplan transforms US-Cuban relations and increases US legitimacy worldwide, especially on human rights, --- It’s the new scapegoat for Raul - not the embargo. Hinderdael, 2011 (Klaas, M.A. candidate at SAIS Bologna Center, concentrating in American Foreign Policy and Energy, Resources, and Environment, “Breaking the Logjam: Obama's Cuba Policy and a Guideline for Improved Leadership”, 6/11/2011, http://bcjournal.org/volume-14/breaking-the-logjam.html?printerFriendly=true)
The United States does hold a strategic card that could transform relations with Cuba, AND , simultaneously increasing American legitimacy and weakening the viability of harsh Cuban rhetoric.
4 Text: The United States federal government should enter into genuine, open-ended negotiations with the government of Cuba that avoid hostility and emphasize a friendly and mutually beneficial relationship. In these negotiations, the United States should offer to normalize economic relations toward Cuba if the government of Cuba agrees to end political repression and release all political prisoners.
The Affs decision to engage outside the framework of negotiations is perceived as a victory for the Cuban hardline –and– it eliminates the leverage needed to end political repression in Cuba. Only the counterplan results in the release of political prisoners and only the counterplan empowers Cuban reformers. Perez, 2010 (David A., Yale Law School, America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, Lexis)
American diplomacy has traditionally suffered from a lack of funding and use. n62 This AND the stick of increased sanctions, and a reversion back to diplomatic isolation.
5 And – The plan dooms the Cuban population to tyrannical repression – the counterplan is key Sanguinetty 2013 Jorge A., Democracy, Development, and Institutions, “Who benefits and loses if the US-Cuba embargo is lifted?”, http://devresearchcenter.org/2013/04/08/who-benefits-and-loses-if-the-us-cuba-embargo-is-lifted-by-jorge-a-sanguinetty/ The answer depends on the conditions under which the embargo is lifted. I focus AND lifting of the US embargo is likely to bring about democracy in Cuba.
And – This makes the counterplan is the only ethical option – it’s a moral side constraint Petro 1974 Sylvester, Wake Forest Professor in Toledo Law Review, Spring, page 480 However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway - "I believe in AND every invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.
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1NC Ohio Valley Round 5 vs JCHS RV
Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: JCHS RV | Judge: Scott Phillips 1NC Round 5 Ohio Valley 1 Time is running out for immigration but compromise for passage will happen now Parkinson 11/22 (John, writer, abc news, “Boehner Says Prospects for Immigration Reform ‘Absolutely Not’ Dead”, http://www.630wpro.com/common/more.php?m=58andts=1385112903andarticle=96E4630552F011E3B51EFEFDADE6840Aandmode=2) While just eight days of legislative business remain before lawmakers are expected to leave Washington AND can act upon that legislation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said.
Unilateral and unconditional approach toward Cuba collapses Congressional support Perez 10 (David A, yale law school jd, harvard latino law review, spring, “America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department”, peer reviewed)
Anti-Americanism has become the political chant de jour for leaders seeking long- AND throughout Latin America, and would go a long way toward creating goodwill. Bipartisanship is key Feere 10/29 (Jon, writer, Washington times, “FEERE: Obama lures Republicans into his immigration trap”) The morning after a bipartisan vote to reopen the federal government, newspapers ran headlines AND not before giving the Democrats an opportunity to further damage the GOP brand.
High tech reform is key to semiconductors Toohey 12 (Brian, SIA President, May 24, 2012, “TechElect Advances Proposals to Create and Sustain AmericanJobs”) A new nonpartisan campaign called TechElect, launched by the Information Technology Industry Council ( AND total sales, which is one of the top rates of any industry. With smart government policies – including investments in basic research, corporate tax reform, and high-skilled immigration reform – the semiconductor industry can continue to create jobs, drive economic growth and develop the technologies needed to solve our most pressing challenges.
Semiconductors are key to US nuclear modernization Chandratre et al 7 (V.B. Chandratre et al 7, Menka Tewani, R.S. Shastrakar, V. Shedam, S. K. Kataria and P. K. Mukhopadhyay Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre “AN APPROACH TO MODERNIZING NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION: SILICON-BASED SENSORS, ASIC AND HMC” October, http://www.barc.ernet.in/publications/nl/2007/200710-2.pdf) Modernization of nuclear instrumentation is pursued for realizing the goal of compact portable nuclear instruments AND electronics. Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have aided in realizing this concept.
Loss of US nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252) Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have AND scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict.
2 Obama is taking a hard line stance against Cuba now. Forero 1/22/13 - NPR's South America correspondent and The Washington Post's correspondent for Colombia and Venezuela (Juan, “Obama's Unfinished Business: Latin America”, January 22 of 2013, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169980241/obamas-unfinished-business-latin-america)
FORERO: Well, I think there's two policy shifts in Cuba that are super AND , the Cuban-American community, particularly in Florida, does vote.
Unilateral and unconditional lifting undermines US credibility; causes nuclear terrorism and encourages worse rights abuses in Cuba Suchlicki 2010 (Jamie, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami, “American Tourists Won't Bring Democracy to Cuba”, Targeted News Service, Lexis) Lifting the travel ban without major concessions from Cuba would send the wrong message " AND economic concessions or when there is a democratic government in place in the island Appeasement causes credibility loss worldwide Hanson, 2009 (American military historian, columnist and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Victor, “Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson”, December 7 of 2009, Interview between Bernard Chapin and Hanson, http://pjmedia.com/blog/change-weakness-disaster-obama-answers-from-victor-davis-hanson/)
BC: Are we currently sending a message of weakness to our foes and allies AND tiger and now no one quite knows whom it will bite or when.
Credibility solves every nuclear war and extinction Coes, 2011 (Ben, a former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, managed Mitt Romney’s successful campaign for Massachusetts Governor in 2002 and author, “The disease of a weak president”, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/)
The disease of a weak president usually begins with the Achilles’ heel all politicians are AND one or the other. The status quo is simply not an option.
3 Status squo Cuba is gradually reforming their economic system but a delicate balance between shock therapy and gradualism is crucial to make reforms work. Sweig and Rockefeller, 2013 (Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies, and Michael Bustamante “Cuba After Communism The Economic Reforms That Are Transforming the Island” http://www.cfr.org/cuba/cuba-after-communism/p30991)
Small-time diaspora capital may prove easier to regulate and rely on than funds AND the black market or assistance from family abroad to acquire many daily necessities.
The plan tips the ideological needle --- Increasing US Capital in Cuba floods Cuba’s market --- That causes political instability and overheating. Hernandez, 2012 (Cuba’s Leading Social Sciences professor and researcher at the University of Havana and the High Institute of International Relations; Director of U.S. studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre America; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto cubano de Investigacion Cultural “Juan Marinello” in Havana. “Debating U.S-Cuban Relations”)
As far as costs are concerned, although many Cubans favor detente and appreciate its AND dealing effectively with "communist regimes" but its sense of superpower omnipotence.
This makes hostilities inevitable --- Structural contradictions prevent peaceful engagement due to the de-legitimization of Raul --- causes armed conflicts. Treto, 2012 (Carlos, Professor and Senior researcher at the University of Havana’s Centro de Estudios Hemisfericos y de Estados Unidos and a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He was a former Cuban ambassador the EU and to Belgium and Luxembourg and a former Cuban Minister to Ethiopia; visiting scholar at universities in the US, Mexico and Europe; visiting professor at Beloit College, the University of Basque Country, and the University of Winnipeg. Debating U.S. - Cuban Relations Chapter: “Cuba’s National Security vis-à-vis the United States”)
In the historical period preceding the one analyzed here, two opposite visions took shape AND to terrorist actors that have damaged the United States or any other country.¶
Inflows are coming gradually now and leveling off but the plan immediately causes massive waves of capital to Cuba --- That uniquely destroys Cuba’s economy. Piccone, 2012 (Ted Piccone is a senior fellow and deputy director for Foreign Policy at Brookings. Piccone specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations; global democracy and human rights; and multilateral affairs. Piccone serves as an advisor to the Club of Madrid and has served on the National Security Council, at the State Department and Pentagon), Brookings, “Cuba Is Changing, Slowly but Surely,” January 19, 2012, http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2012/01/19-cuba-piccone
A closer look, however, reveals something more profound—a wholesale mental shift AND will, with time, make long overdue reconciliation with the United States inevitable
4 Text: The United States federal government should enter into genuine, open-ended negotiations with the government of Cuba that avoid hostility and emphasize a friendly and mutually beneficial relationship. In these negotiations, the United States should offer to normalize trade relations toward the Republic of Cuba if the government of Cuba agrees to end political repression and release all political prisoners.
The Affs decision to engage outside the framework of negotiations is perceived as a victory for the Cuban hardline –and– it eliminates the leverage needed to end political repression in Cuba. Only the counterplan results in the release of political prisoners and only the counterplan empowers Cuban reformers. Perez, 2010 (David A., Yale Law School, America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, Lexis)
American diplomacy has traditionally suffered from a lack of funding and use. n62 This AND the stick of increased sanctions, and a reversion back to diplomatic isolation.
And – The plan dooms the Cuban population to tyrannical repression – the counterplan is key Sanguinetty 2013 Jorge A., Democracy, Development, and Institutions, “Who benefits and loses if the US-Cuba embargo is lifted?”, http://devresearchcenter.org/2013/04/08/who-benefits-and-loses-if-the-us-cuba-embargo-is-lifted-by-jorge-a-sanguinetty/ The answer depends on the conditions under which the embargo is lifted. I focus AND lifting of the US embargo is likely to bring about democracy in Cuba.
And – This makes the counterplan is the only ethical option – it’s a moral side constraint Petro 1974 Sylvester, Wake Forest Professor in Toledo Law Review, Spring, page 480 However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway - "I believe in AND every invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.
5 Text: The Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government should remove Cuba from the State Sponsored Terror List and begin bilateral economic diplomacy with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The United States Federal Government should promote domestic sustainable agriculture practices in the US, should significantly increase its funding for research on sustainable practices, and condition the provision of farm subsidies on acreage diversion programs for switch grass and other biomass crops.
The Alliance of Baptists appealed April 6 to President Obama and Secretary of State John AND range of sanctions, including controls over exports and prohibitions on economic assistance.
Diplomatically, positive engagement with Venezuela would be a major step toward building American credibility AND because of the cooperation between Venezuela and a Boston-area oil company.
The CP shifts farms to sustainable ag --- farmers will utilize it. Hamilton, 1998 (Neil, s the Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Law an Director, Agricultural Law Center, Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, USA. This essay is based on a presentation given at the Union Mondiale des Agraristes Universitaires (the All World Union of Agricultural Law Professors) (UMAU) 5th World Congress on Agrarian Law held May 19-21, 1998 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, “THE ROLE OF LAW IN PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: REFLECTIONS ON TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES” http://students.law.drake.edu/aglawjournal/docs/agVol03No2-Hamilton.pdf)
Let me conclude by summarizing several of the important opportunities that ¶ exist for agricultural AND is whether the agriculture we are building can yield the harvest we desire.
Incentivizing farmers to grow energy crops is critical soak up atmospheric carbon, solves warming. Mazza 08 (Patrick Mazza, Climate Solutions Research Director, 3/12/08, “Growing Sustainable Biofuels: Common Sense on Biofuels,” Climate Solutions, http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007885.html)
The future of the Earth could well hinge on the future of earth, the AND biofuels done sustainably could play a leading role in solving the carbon challenge.
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1NC Politics Disad
Tournament: Michigan | Round: 1 | Opponent: GBN MT | Judge: Jeremy Hammond A - Unique Internal Link: Obama is pushing for high tech visas; maintaining republican support is key to effective compromise Sent 10/28 (Milwaukee journal Sentinel, “An opening for reform? Obama, Congress must try”) Barack Obama can't lose in the immigration debate AND Reform, said the time was right to get reform through the Congress.
Economic engagement with Mexico is politically divisive despite supporters Wilson 13 –(Christopher E., January, Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International. Center for Scholars, “A U.S.-Mexico Economic Alliance: Policy Options for a Competitive Region,” http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/new_ideas_us_mexico_relations.pdf)
At a time when Mexico is poised to experience robust economic growth, a manufacturing AND action to support regional exporters more politically divisive than it ought to be.
High tech reform is key to semiconductors Toohey 12 (Brian, SIA President, May 24, 2012, “TechElect Advances Proposals to Create and Sustain AmericanJobs”)
A new nonpartisan campaign called TechElect, launched by the Information Technology Industry Council ( AND solve our most pressing challenges.
Semiconductors are key to US nuclear modernization Chandratre et al 7 (V.B. Chandratre et al 7, Menka Tewani, R.S. Shastrakar, V. Shedam, S. K. Kataria and P. K. Mukhopadhyay Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre “AN APPROACH TO MODERNIZING NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION: SILICON-BASED SENSORS, ASIC AND HMC” October, http://www.barc.ernet.in/publications/nl/2007/200710-2.pdf)
Modernization of nuclear instrumentation is pursued for realizing the goal of compact portable nuclear instruments AND electronics. Rapid developments in semiconductor technology have aided in realizing this concept.
Loss of US nuclear primacy causes global nuclear war Caves 10 (John P. Caves Jr., Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, January 2010, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” Strategic Forum, No. 252)
Perceptions of a compromised U.S. nuclear deterrent as described above would have AND scale far more catastrophic than what nuclear-armed terrorists alone could inflict.
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